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- From: weverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (William M. Everett)
- Newsgroups: alt.activism.d
- Subject: Re: LaRouche is a fucking Nazi!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.041729.15977@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 04:17:29 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.211217.3192@vexcel.com> dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska) writes:
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- >
- >Fascism is not a form of socialism.
- Fascism is fairly vaguely defined. So this can't really made as a
- definite statement.
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- >Most enterprise in Nazi Germany was privately owned.
- There was a good deal of nationalization, so there was at least some
- degree of socialism.
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- >The fact that socialism can take an authoritarian form does not mean it is
- >fascist.
- It doesn't have to be, but it can be.
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- >Socialism usually implies some form of
- >collectivism where the needs (or at least supposed needs) of the whole
- >override the needs of the few. In fascism, the needs of the _state_,
- >as defined by its leader override the needs of any citizen.
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- The line between the two can get somewhat fuzzy in some instances.
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- >--
- >
- > dingo in boulder (dean@vexcel.com)
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