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Thread #100395   Message #2012754
Posted By: Little Hawk
31-Mar-07 - 02:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: Another Fascist War in Europe?
Subject: RE: BS: Another Fascist War in Europe?
Yes, Peace, but the "someone" who is supposedly to blame (the scapegoat) can also be located in another country. Or in several other countries. It does not have to be a minority within one's own population who is used as the scapegoat for violence.

As far as I'm concerned, fascism is simply the gross misuse of governmental authority in a very aggressive way...and the overcentralization of power in unscrupulous hands. It also goes hand in hand with a lot of drum-beating patriotism and dire warnings of a threat to the nation...either by internal OR external forces.

I consider Stalin, for example, to have been a fascist, in truth, even though he was called a Communist and was engaged in fighting the primary offical fascist powers of the time. Fascists CAN get into disagreements and wars with other fascists...and they frequently do. ;-)

I consider Mao to have been a fascist. I consider any extreme dictator to be a fascist, to all intents and purposes.