Genoa (was Re: Who provokes whom?

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In einer eMail vom 23.07.01 20:44:09 (MEZ) - Mitteleurop. Sommerzeit schreibt 
lycidas2 at earthlink.net:

> Fascism, as I understand it, is a system of government
>  marked by centralization of authority under a dictator,
>  stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the
>  opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a
>  policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. and  A
>  political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such
>  a system of government.
You could also subsume the Hitler Regime under such a definition because it 
had such elements, too.
But of course there's a huge difference between Mussolini and Hitler.

No, in my opinion the point is a different one: democratic regimes (in the 
sense of liberal democratic representative systems) have always authoritative 
or fascist elements as their shadow, and in a critical situation this shadow 
is getting bigger and bigger...

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