> 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)... 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...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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Calm down. You get rattled too easily - not a good attribute for an
aspiring revolutionary.