[lbo-talk] More on Obama and Facsism

[Chris Doss]

I actually am not sure that Nazism should be classed as a variant of fascism at all, or at least I think that it should not be considered the exemplary form of fascism, as is often done. Classical fascism did not contain the defining elements of Nazism -- biologism. Anti-Semitism played almost no role in classical fascism. But in any case what was reprehensible in fascism was not their business practices (rolls eyes). It was the glorification of war.

--- On Fri, 9/18/09, James Leveque <leveque.james at gmail.com> wrote:


> From: James Leveque <leveque.james at gmail.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] More on Obama and Facsism
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Friday, September 18, 2009, 7:31 PM
> I'm just throwing this out there to
> see what kind of responses I get. Some
> former Bush official compared Obama's economic policies to
> Hitler and Peron.
> I'm less interested in her confused reading of Obama's
> policies than her
> stated "definition" of fascism.
> 
> http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/09/former-bush-administration-official-warns-against-economic-fascism-under-obama.php?ref=fpblg
> 
> "when you look at the definition of fascism. Fascism is not
> government
> ownership of business, it is government control of
> business."
> 
> This is a subject I've become recently really interested in
> (so, hence, I
> don't know a lot about it.), but my feeling is that
> economics is a
> problematic way to define fascism because economic policies
> weren't well
> defined under the fascists. Consequently, what Germany was
> doing
> economically wasn't what Italy was doing, which was
> different from some
> other regime like the Falangists. But capitalist businesses
> largely
> flourished under fascism. That being said, it seems like
> most fascist
> regimes weren't above regulation by any means, as long as
> the regulation
> subordinated business to the fascist party. Is this at
> least somewhat
> accurate?
> 
> James Leveque
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