You're right. I stand corrected. The Italian fascists only bowed to German
pressure by passing racial laws, but resisted deportations. Likewise, the
Franco regime banned Jewish organizations, but accepted Jewish refugees
until they closed the border during the war, again under German pressure.
----- Original Message -----
From: "raghu" <[email protected]>
To: "Progressive Economics" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [Pen-l] Racism & Reaction Must be Confronted
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Marv Gandall <[email protected]>
wrote:
MG: I don't know who would argue that nationalism is equivalent to
fascism.
I certainly didn't suggest it. Race was not as important to the Italian
and
Spanish fascists as was the second pillar on which the fascist movement
rested: the war against the rising trade unions and socialist parties in
Europe. However, the Italian fascists - mostly opportunistically because
of
their alliance with Hitler - did turn to racism during the war and
assisted
in the deportation of the Jews.
I have to contradict you on this. The Italian fascists never
cooperated in the deportation of Jews. Until Mussolini was deposed and
Northern Italy was occupied by the Wehrmacht in 1944, Italy was,
ironically enough, the safest place to be for Jews in Europe - far
safer than Vichy France or Holland.
This doesn't mean of course that the fascists were not racist. They
were just less viciously so than the Nazis; to their credit, they were
perhaps a little squeamish when it came to actual genocide.
(Maybe we should speak of a spectrum of fascism, the moderate fascism
represented by Franco and Mussolini and the extreme fascisms being
represented by Hitler).
-raghu.
--
"Really ?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!"
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