On 2010-02-19, at 12:27 AM, Chip Berlet wrote:
> You know, it would be really refreshing if someone here at LBO Talk other that Woj actually bothered to read some of the scholarship on fascism written during the last 20 years.
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> For the cram course, start here:
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> http://www.hnn.us/articles/122469.html
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> In utter despair at definitions and arguments that are 50 years out of date...
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What exactly in this material - mainly aimed at the Jonah Goldberg and other right-wing commentators' nutty conflation of liberalism, socialism, and fascism - did you find new and exciting and at variance with what most contributors to this thread already understand about fascism? It seems pretty consistent with standard analyses of the movement and it's ideology dating back to it's heyday in the 30's. It would be appreciated if you could curb your your agitated impatience, typical of those who look for differences where they don't exist or exaggerate them where they do.