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

[Dennis Claxton]

At 02:59 PM 2/19/2010, Doug Henwood wrote:


>>http://www.alternet.org/news/141819
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>Where we read:
>
>"That description sounds eerily like......

And where we also read:

"Rather, he said, mature democracies turn fascist by a recognizable 
process, a set of five stages that may be the most important family 
resemblance that links all the whole motley collection of 20th 
Century fascisms together."

By what measure were Spain, Italy, and Germany "mature democracies" 
before WWII?