I'm starting to think that comparing the neo-cons to the Fascists is a real insult to the Fascists. They at least had style and talent.
I may be wrong on this, but I don't think the Nazis considered themselves to be fascists? Even though there are obvious similarities between the two ideologies, there are obvious differences (and obvious differences in body count), most glaringly the lunatic Nazi racial obsession. There were Jews in the Fascist Party after all. If I remember correctly Arendt argued that in OoT that Fascism and Nazism were qualitatively different, much as (in her view) Leninism and Stalinism were qualitatively different.
Actually, on the Evil Dictator Body-Count Continuum, Mussolini rates way, way down on the list. The Italian Fascists executed, what, 13 people for political reasons? (Quoting by memory.) Hitler killed 400 people just on the Night of the Long Knives. The Chinese government has executed way more people than Mussolini. I wonder how he would be viewed today if he hadn't allied with Hitler.
--- andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately for the creative fascists, the thug
> ones
> stole the name. Many people think the same thing
> happened with the Communists.
>
> There were a handful of genuine fascists (Nazi
> variety) of the thug variety, the mentioned Ernst
> Junger aside (well worth reading!), who were really
> creative by the highest standard. Heidegger. Carl
> Schmitt. Leni Riefenstahl, unless you believe her
> Sergeant Schulz story. (That she wasn't an
> ideologue.)
> Then there was Celine, but I don't know whether he
> was
> a real fascist or just a total misanthrope. He
> doesn't
> seem to have hated the Jews especially, at least not
> more than he hated everyone else.
>
>
> --- Mark Bennett <mab at straussandasher.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Chris Doss wrote
> >
> >
> > --- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
> > Right wingers are naturally attracted to fascist
> > views because they are
> > emotionally and cognitively crippled and use
> fascist
> > ideology as a
> > mental crutch. Specifically, these are the people
> > who for whatever
> > physiological or psychological reasons do not
> handle
> > very well
> > uncertainty, ambiguity and unfamiliar situations.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Actually the Fascists (with a capital "F") were
> > associated with
> > experimentalism, dynamism, and futurism, and had
> > genuine, and I add
> > extremely innovative, artists -- Pound,
> D'Annunuzio,
> > Junger. We need a
> > different word for the people you're talking about
> > (maybe Thuggist).
> >
> >
>
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