As I have been saying( Read more... )

The most shocking part of the Trump triumph has been the open and unresisted entrance of the hard right, from the Ku Klux Klan to Stormfront, into the ranks of Trump supporters ( Read more... )

The past does not die very fast. For decades now, the heirs and sympathizers of Benito Mussolini have been trying to popularize a version of their Leader that cleared him of all the issues that have made Fascism, not only discredited, but odious. This Mussolini of the Mussolinis was not particularly racist; he did not really hate Jews, was ( Read more... )

I have often found myself in the position of having to say: "You are talking nonsense. I know what Fascists are like. I have met them in considerable number since I was a child. I was born in the same country as Fascism. I have studied Fascism as a historian. [insert personal or group name] may be a detestable person, and his/her/their views ( Read more... )

I hate Fascism in general and Nick Griffin in particular. Griffin is the head of the British Fascist party, the BNP, and as clever a villain as any in politics. I repeatedly said that he is the cleverest party leader in Britain - unfortunately. He has been ruthlessly positioning his party - whose core is made of unrepenentant thugs and Jew- ( Read more... )

I am horrified. Of all the unwelcome, untimely, ill-conceived, unnecessary, insulting and disastrous measures Pope Benedict could have taken, this is the worst. On the very week that the most anti-Catholic and pro-abortion President has taken office in Washington DC, the Pope seems to indicate that open flirtations with Le Pen and Pinochet, ( Read more... )

As my friends know, I do not call everyone who disagrees with me a Fascist. On the other hand, I do believe that Fascism does exist, that it is mortally dangerous (witness the butchery of helpless Christians by Indian Fascists in Orissa recently), and that it must be fought wherever it is met ( Read more... )

Not so long ago, I got into trouble with several of my more conservative friends by making a no-holds-barred attack on Jonah Goldberg's view of recent European history. One of my main points was that Goldberg rewrote history for purely partisan reasons ( Read more... )

It just goes on and on.... I point out that I have described the historical and doctrinal falsehood of Goldberg's theory; that I have made it clear that Fascism contradicts the ideological bases of Socialism; that it was actually invented by the enemies of Socialism to try and steal the thunder of their enemies, while completely denying everything ( Read more... )

Is there anything else that would lead people to accept and defend complete rubbish, to hold up stuff that demeans their own intellect, to insult anyone who disagrees, and, worst of all, to completely abandon any shred of critical attitude, insisting that that which flatters our party positions is therefore sacred and untouchable ( Read more... )