DOOM, or The Official 2016 US Election Thread
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droid
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"It is not easy, for instance, to fit Germany and Japan into the same framework, and it is even harder with some of the small states which are describable as Fascist. It is usually assumed, for instance, that Fascism is inherently warlike, that it thrives in an atmosphere of war hysteria and can only solve its economic problems by means of war preparation or foreign conquests. But clearly this is not true of, say, Portugal or the various South American dictatorships. Or again, antisemitism is supposed to be one of the distinguishing marks of Fascism; but some Fascist movements are not antisemitic. Learned controversies, reverberating for years on end in American magazines, have not even been able to determine whether or not Fascism is a form of capitalism. But still, when we apply the term ‘Fascism’ to Germany or Japan or Mussolini's Italy, we know broadly what we mean."
craner
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Indeed, don't know the quote, but Italian fascism was not anti-semitic initially, but the war ideology, anti-Communism, anti-enlightenment liberalism, revolutionary right wing populism was common to all those regimes of the Fascist International. Japan wasn't necessarily 'fascist' but an extreme form of conservative imperialism.