>>I don't understand the reason for your irritation.>>
Then sets up an explanation that is sure to irritate, stating:
>>Is it because you think I draw too sharp a distinction between fascism and the US "national security state"? Your commentaries, including this one, always seem to blur the distinction.>>
My commentaries if you would actually read them with any sort of understanding show an unwillingness to exclude 'fascist' or 'fascism' from my vocabulary just because a group of 'leftists' over a certain age tend to do so. Modern dictionaries and lots and lots of actual usage support me (check out an online corpus of MODERN English).
>>But maybe I'm being unfair.>>
Maybe you are being irritating by wanting to have it both ways. You want 'fascism' to exist in some world-ahistoric platonic ether of conceptual evil while you sit irritatingly on your hands everytime the mind-numbing, semi-annual discussion of Islamic 'clerical fascism' and the stateless caliphate comes up on this and other lists.
>>There was some info about Nazi taxation and other social policies that I wasn't familar with, and that's probably true of most other non-specialists on the list, as well.>>
This would indicate you don't necessarily know jack about either historic fascism in Germany and Italy or the actual nature of the national security state of the US. But do you really want to dwell on improperly understood history of one or two countries in the last century til the day you die? What is it, too much Tom Brokaw and Steven Spielberg or something?
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