Wow, nice discussion. Could one or the other of you define what Socialism and Fascism actually meant to people in the early 20th century? Nowadays I mostly see them as curse words....
Sent from my iPhone On Jan 15, 2011, at 5:36, Tomas de Utrera <[email protected]> wrote: > I lived under Francisco Franco's regime for its last seven years and so > experienced Spanish Fascism directly. The term itself is difficult to define > because the "big four" regimes we classify as Fascist, while having some > things in common were all quite different. One point they all shared in > common was some form or another of corporatism. In none of the four was > private industry discouraged. The founder of Fascism, Benito Mussolini, > several times rued the fact that he had called his system Fascism and > complained that he should have called it what it really was; corporatism. He > was seen by big business all over the world in a very positive light until he > joined Hitler's Germany in a failed alliance -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
