Yes it is, and that's a major part of my essay here:
The Roots of Liberal Fascism: The Book By Chip Berlet
http://www.hnn.us/articles/122245.html
Chip
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of farmelantj at juno.com Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 1:03 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Fascism, right-wing populism,and contemporary research
Returning to Jonah Goldberg, isn't his book a sort of vuglarization of Friedrich Hayek's thesis in *The Road to Serfdom* in which he claimed that fascism had social democratic roots?
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Fascism, right-wing populism, and contemporary research Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:05:59 -0500
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?
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