>
> On 2010-02-18, at 9:13 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
>
> > In this conversation, the term "fascist" is being used in an extremely
> vague sense, a sense that no Fascist in the 1920s and 30s would have
> recognized. "Fascist" does not mean "member of right-wing movement," and I
> seriously doubt that most members of Mussolini's party would have recognized
> the tea-baggers as confreres. Have you guys ever read any actual Fascist
> writings -- Gentille, Mussolini, Junger?
> ==========================
> I read some Gentile, spelled with one L, way back when.
>
> I'm sure Gramsci read them all in the original Italian, and would contest
> your view that fascism, including it's Italian incarnation, wasn't a
> right-wing movement formed to battle Communists and other leftists in the
> streets in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution.
>
> Anyway, I'll let others indulge your eccentric views on fascism.
>
Chris said that "'fascist' does not mean 'member of right-wing movement." How on earth are you getting "fascism is not a right-wing movement" from that? Is every right-wing movement the same?
On general principle I stop taking a writer seriously whenever she claims a movement not from the 1930s or claiming direct descendance from such is "fascist." There's such a well-known tendency towards these sorts of claims that even pointing them out is considered cliche.