What is fascism?

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Originally posted by Specter@November 20, 2007 06:37 pm
For Franco it was the catholic church, the army and the big landlords, for Pinochet it was USA and big business. For Mussolini it was a bit of everything I think. Some people claim that it was a "pluralist dictatorship" wich means that it was hundreds of different groups hoping to get something out of it, with only a small minority of groups (liberals, communists, anarchists) wich was completly on the outside - being banned from both party and corporative positions, and imprisoned if doing political agitation.

liberals, anarchists and communists were very big groups doring the 30' in the Italian society.
It's true that Mussolini formed a coalition with fascists, liberals, social-democrats and catholics, but he threw them all out after a time. So only the beginning of his regime could be named pluralist.
Mussolini completly whiped out any political group standing up for the working class trough his fascist gangs/bootboys.

While I'm surprised you haven't been banned, more power to you. No one seems interested in discussing fascism on a theoretical level, and as LSD put it, they instead wish to fight a make-believe battle with "fascists" in the forms of skinhead punks and neo-nazis.

true, some people have a 'fetish' on this topic. But on the other hand in many countrys the nazi bootboys form a direct threat to the leftwing movement. Russia for example.

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Originally posted by LSD@November 19, 2007 03:22 am
Fascism's usefullness died at Normandy.

That's not historically accurate.