[lbo-talk] Italian fascism query [was: How flame wars start]

[Leigh Meyers]

Chris Doss opined:
> No, it did not. See my previous post. There were Jews
> in Mussolini's government. (I read his memoirs a
> couple of months ago.)
>
>   
in  response to Jim Devine's query:

I don't know much about Italian history. Did Italian fascism involve
anti-Jewish bigotry in a significant way before Mussolini became
subordinated to Hitler?
<...>

The point of emphasis in "

 "(FOR EXAMPLE (emphasis mine), against the Jews)"

Is "(FOR EXAMPLE..."

Anti-semitism is NOT a defining trait of fascism. 
The "other" is the defining trait that embodies such
social illnesses as ant-semitism. 

It could be the disabled or Okies... or economists (!) 
for that matter, inflicted on ones own culture using
ones own 'others'.

I say we're there, and have been, for a ... while.

Leigh
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