--- James Heartfield <Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> As far as I understand it, it was an important
> component of Japanese
> Communist Party doctrine that the military leaders
> in Japan were Fascist,
> but that is because of the needs of Soviet Communist
> doctrine, i.e. that
> after 1941 the world was divided between the camp of
> democracy and the camp
> of Fascism.
Thanks James -- interesting.
Come to think of it, when was National Socialism first classified as a form of Fascism? I don't think the Nazis called themselves Fascist, which meant the governments in Italy and Spain. Is this also a product of the "democracy vs. fascism" model?
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