>It would appear for Eagleton's review that Paxton doesn't think
>Hirohitos' Japan was fascist. Neither is Japan mentioned in a review by
>G. Pascal Zachary in the SF Chronicle (that I have in hand). That's a
>blind spot characteristic of views both "Eurocentric" and narrow in
>their intrepretation of the modern political culture.
Following Paxton, Eagleton wants to make a distinction between fascism and other forms of military authoritarianism. I'm not sure how important that distinction is, but the poster's who've been complaining about the review seem to overlook that.
Doug