Friday, February 23, 2007
This Day in the History of Evil
On this day in 1919, Benito Mussolini created the Fascist Party. The fasces were a bundle of rods tied around a central axe carried by the lictors before magistrates and persons of political inportance in ancient Rome. You see the reference. Here is the definition of fascist--A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism--but the Italian fascists were primarily anti-Communist, socialist nationalists, as were the Nazis. They were lefties, different from the Communists in their nationalism (as opposed to the Soviet's internationalism) and in the fact the fascist government didn't own the factories and businesses but controlled them just as absolutely through other means. Fascism pretty much ended as a viable form of government (except in Spain) in the mid -40s.
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People should really learn the definition of fascism. It's used all to often, and way incorrectly, by the Bush Derangement crowd.
"A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism"
It's funny...Hugo Chavez likes to talk a lot about his "new socialism", but Venezuela today looks a lot like old fascism.
It's funny...Hugo Chavez likes to talk a lot about his "new socialism", but Venezuela today looks a lot like old fascism.
"Fascism pretty much ended as a viable form of government (except in Spain) in the mid -40s."
Somebody should tell Rudy.
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Somebody should tell Rudy.
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