QED.
LC | 01.17.08 - 12:43 am | #

Poor Jonah, he tries so hard and at best only embarrasses himself.


Certainly every one know.s Roger Griffin’s one sentence household definition:

'Fascism is a genus of political ideology whose mythic core in its various permutations is a palingenetic form of populist ultra-nationalism’

Ah, . . .what does palingenetic mean? :- )

Anyway the link is an academic review of different attempts to understand fascism.



But any way I have a question.

But where does Fascism see society as a contract a la Burke?

Roger Eatwell, who authored the link, describes a key aspect as:

Views on the nature of ‘mass’ new man could vary notably among fascists. One strand of fascist thinking was largely contemptuous of the masses, and saw new man largely in terms of being socialised into accepting elite authority


snip

A third key theme in fascist thought was the state. Mussolini, for instance, wrote that 'The Fascist conception of the State is all-embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value...The Fascist State is…a unique and original creation. It is not reactionary but revolutionary

That sounds like a movement whose elite does not recognize any contract with the governed.
hank | Homepage | 01.17.08 - 1:45 am | #

Thank god someone wrote it.

Logic 101G (Goldbergian):

1922 -- Mussolini cuts taxes;
2002 -- Bush cuts taxes;

Therefore, Bush's tax-cutting ideology shares a philosophical foundation with fascism.

1922 -- Mussolini cuts "unnecessary" government agencies;
1982 -- Reagan cuts "unnecessary" government agencies;

Therefore, Reagan's government-shrinking ideology shares a philosophical foundation with fascism

1926 -- Mussolini says that religion is a powerful force in public life that must be protected and defended;
2008 -- you get it.....
Hemlock for Gadflies | Homepage | 01.17.08 - 2:09 pm | #