Defining Fascism

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Sat Jun 30 15:28:53 PDT 2001



>But bits of Mein Kampf (available since 1927) are clearly militantly racist
>hate-speech, and (no matter how hypocritically, in a lynching America)
>publicly professed adherence to such stuff does constitute the sort of
>transgression a liberal democrat conviction must confront. After all,
>complete freedom is a pretty problematic notion, no?
>
>Cheers,
>Rob.

But... But... But... We don't like to be *reminded* of how our liberal tolerance of which we are so proud is based on the aggressive suppression of illiberalism whenever it gains sufficient strength. We consider it *rude* to remind us of our inconsistency...


:-)

Brad DeLong



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