Carrol nails the logical fallacy in the wretched and misleading Britt aricle on fascism, but the real scandal is that it is a badly done libertarian knock off of a progressive essay originally written by Umberto Eco:
Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt Umberto Eco
I just helped reformat it for posting at: http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html
Chip Berlet Senior Analyst Political Research Associates http://www.publiceye.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carrol Cox [mailto:cbcox at ilstu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 1:46 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: 14 characteristics of fascism
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> Jon Johanning wrote:
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> > Most of the characteristics Britt lists are actually
> properties than
> > can be observed in any nation in a state of war.
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> Without exception, I have never heard an argument of the form
> "the U.S. is heading towards fascism" that does not have the
> following form hidden within in it:
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> All rabbits are mammals.
> Therefore all mammals are rabbits.
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> We need a new version of the story of the boy who cried wolf.
> Perhaps someone on the list could invent one having the
> following form.
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> The last time the boy cried wolf everyone still believed him
> so they all ran out to the pasture to fight the wolf and a
> python sneaked in the back door and ate up all the children.
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> Carrol
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