"...a couple of Mudcat regulars (you and Amos in particular), who constantly attack anyone and everyone who dares to post critical analysis of the Mudcat community"

If that was from a person with a name, I'd ask them for date and time of posts I have made which can fairly be described in those terms. I don't attack people, even when I disagree with them.

There's always room for "critical analyses of the Mudcat community". However it would seem to me that a much more constructive way of carrying on a discussion of these would be in a separate thread - perhaps with a link from this thread.

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One of the complications with using "fascism" as the umbrella term is that which brucie touches upon - the involvement of multi-nationalism, and globalisation.

Implicit in "fascism" is the priority of the nation state, but for many of the new tyrannies the nation state is not in reality all that important, though it can be convenient to use the rhetoric at times, and take advantage of people's programmed loyalties and reactions.