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  • The loss of Zimbabwe and South Africa to the Reds . . .

    . . . compares favorably with the loss of Afghanistan, Tibet, Hong Kong, and China to the Socialist/Communist ideologues elsewhere. Of course, the Anglo-American world Realpolitik has suffered it's share of losses to Right Wing Ideologue regimes, as well. Look no further than France, Italy, and Iran among others. We could even mention America in ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on April 21, 2008

  • Oh Hitchens, Off the Reservation Again, Are We?

    Hilary Clinton will make a great President, and it is only a matter of time now before that happens. I speak as the American who picked both her and Ronald Reagan for the job, so I think I know what I am talking about. Supporters of Obama and McCain will just have to get used to my choice of Hilary for President, just as I have had to accommodate ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on April 1, 2008

  • Corporatism

    My understanding of fascism ties it inexorably to corporatism, whereby powerful business interests and the state collude to form a ruling elite, which then rallies the nation around a nationalistic, ethnocentric cause. The corporatist model is only really possible in more advanced societies, like 1930s/40s Germany, Japan, and Italy. I think the ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by melisande on October 23, 2007

  • Islamofascism

    The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide: he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, but above all for others -- those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after... So wrote Mussolini in his defintion of fascism, with which Giovanni ...
    Posted to Fighting Words by Richard Cummings on October 22, 2007