Michael Hoover writes: >recall that Mussolini proclaimed a desire to construct a 'totalitarian' state...and appeal of concept/term for US Cold Warriors was drawing attention to similarities between fascism and communism which they could do only by eliding significant differences between two (such as capitalist economy surviving throughout Nazi period with big business collaboration and communism's advocacy of equality, international solidarity and co-operation)...< This is accurate. Burnham and Orwell (and others) linked fascism and communism, though Burnham brought in the US New Deal, too. The cold warriors of course never applied the term "fascist" or "totalitarian" to their allies, no matter how appropriate it was. BTW, I wouldn't attribute "communism's advocacy of equality, international solidarity and co-operation" to Stalin's communism. As Trotsky and many others documented, inequality increased a lot under Stalin. (The USSR did better afterwards, as full employment resulted from its style of industrialization.) As for "international solidarity and co-operation," these seemed to be tools for defending the Soviet Union, as when the Cominterm became subordinate to Moscow. We shouldn't take "advocacy" seriously, unless it is backed up in practice. After all, _Clinton_ endorses a version of international solidarity and co-operation. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html Bombing DESTROYS human rights. Ground troops make things worse. US/NATO out of Serbia!
