Wait a minute, are we not all mature adults and academics or at lest readers, thinkers & writers? Why should we bed down with the unenlightened radical frings who dredge up the sobriquet "Fascist" to heap on every man in uniform or unsavoury political or plutocratic character? Fascism is a particular type of corporate socialism, whereby the three fascii (pillars), capital, labour & government agree to run society according to a compact. Post WWII Italy's real organization seldom deviated from that model in practice despite various swings between communist and rightist parties in power. In Argentina under Peron it worked well for a while. But then Italians are the majority ethnic group in Argentina. With Spain (Franco) and Portugal (Salazar) you had a varient that involved the church as more the glue binding the three together than a fourth pillar, albeit a rightest glue. Of course National Socialist Germany was a failure compared to Italy as it was too mechanical in its formation, one might think or Wilhelm Reich's work on the Origins of German totalitarianism (exact title ???), which made a good sociological analysis of the authoritarian persona within the family structure where good German women nourished strong young warriors, like Sparta.
Does anyone else see correlations between culture and Mediterranean politics, whether European, African or Asian? According to recent work in archaeology and anthropology, corporatist societies, hence politics, may have neolithic roots in Mediterranean and Western Asia worlds. jb -----Original Message----- From: Rakesh Bhandari [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 5:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:20461] Re: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Afghanistan & class when i was off the list jim made comments that make his position much more complex than i thought. i was going on the comments that were in my in box. so jim if have misunderstood you, i apologize. i guess the use of the word fascism is inflammatory...which of course as jim says doesn't mean we should not use it when justified even in a loose sense. Rakesh
