[lbo-talk] Fascism, right-wing populism, and contemporary research

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Feb 19 09:05:59 PST 2010


On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:


> 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.

Chip's own contribution to this debate:

http://www.hnn.us/articles/122245.html

oddly conflates libertarianism and fascism.

Chip, you don't really mean that do you?

Doug



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