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Old 05-04-06, 19:47   #5
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Note that you say Tagged Facist Egb,Have just read a very Interesting
book called "Fascism" by Richard Griffiths
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he makes a lot of
interesting points of views,Mainly how the term Fascist is flashed around.
Did open my eyes with regard as to where the Ideoligy originates.
He credits a lot of the original thinking, to a group named Action Francaise.Reading through it was startling, and at the same time quite frightning,The author used a method called "Wittgensteins Criteria"
Wich basically says anything you try to Define will incorporate something
else
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Fascism:Totalitarian,Too wide,Applicable to many movements.
Racist,too narrow in that many movements commonly accepted
as fascist were not racist
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Too wide he qoutes twentieth century communism.
Nationalist,Too wide
populist,too wide
Anti Capitalist, too wide
And so on,Anyway a really good read.
not read that one, but have a book that makes a similar argument. it's certainly an abused term, which is why, in the same vein, i use it to describe the soviets. by any of the loose / wide common usages - except perhaps for populist - it applies to them as much as anyone else.
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