> From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] RE: Mussolini in little Italy
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> --- "John K. Taber" <jktaber at tacni.net> wrote:
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> >
> > The father of my godmother, an old man then
> > afflicted with palsy, would
> > sit for hours on the porch, and every now and then
> > shake his head sadly
> > and say "Italia, she's-a no more. Mussolini, he's-a
> > dead." Then he would
> >
> > tap the porch floor with his cane for emphasis.
> >
> > John
>
> Yeah, but what did it mean to him? Was he a fascist in
> the sense of buying all the ideology, or did it
> signify something else for him? (This is what I was
> trying to get at in a couple of previous posts.) My
> grandfather supported Hitler, and he wasn't even an
> anti-Semite, as far as I know -- as near as I can
> tell, it had to do with providing structure for his
> life (he came from a very, very abusive family, and I
> think the Hitlerjugend were kind of a escape for him).
>
> Of course, on the Evil Dictator scale, somewhat like
> Mussolini (basically a run-of-the-mill military
> dictator with some futurist trappings) is in a whole
> other category than someone like Adolf "Kill! Kill!" Hitler.
I'm sorry, it was too long ago and I was too young to question him.
John