> > Behalf Of Bob Henderson
>> Fascism protects the existing social order by suppression
>> of the working
>> class through force and by re-directing discontent through
>> propaganda by
>> providing a scapegoat such as the Jew or any other suitable
>> foreigner
>> thereby creating the psychological readiness of the
>> population for war.
>>
>> So Fascism is totalitarian and nationalistic.
>
>A couple of notes on an otherwise excellent post. Fascism is _not_
>necessarily totalitarian. Take, for example, the five major "fascist"
>states during WWII - Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Fascist Spain,
>Militarist Japan, and the Communist USSR. Of those, Italy, Spain, and
>Japan were clearly not totalitarian, and Germany is quite debatable.
Never heard anyone debate it. Since Stalin's Russia and Hitler's
Germany are the two regimes out of which the ideal type of
"totalitarianism" was constructed, it would be kind of silly to claim
that Hitler's Germany was not "totalitarian"...
Brad DeLong
