Genoa (was Re: Who provokes whom?

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>When a person talks like a fascist, acts like a fascist & runs around with 
>other fascist, I tend to think that that person is a fascist.  Neh? 

>jbf

And the Right Wingers, post-fascists or "Neo-fascists"  are
going to usher in a modern-day version of Benito Mussolini's
jack-booted fascist regime that ruled Italy between 1922 and
1943? 

Is this why young kids should go to Italy and protest and
destroy the property of those they assume must be wealthy
and therefore conservative and therefore fascists? 

Isn't Italy a  different place -- industrialized, prosperous
and boasting a strong middle class --from what it was in
Mussolini's time? 

The so called "neo-Fascist" or "post-fascist  Italian
Social Movement (MSI), founded 49 years ago by followers of
Benito Mussolini, voted itself out of existence. 


Delegates at a party congress backed a policy document that
declared the MSI's work complete and said it should give way
to
the National Alliance, the hard right movement Fini founded, 
as a platform for electoral success.

The National Alliance charter, enshrined in the document,
formerly severs all links with fascist ideology and declares
the
movement committed to democracy and the free market.


The near unanimous vote was a triumph for the suave Fini who
has labored to establish his democratic credentials in the
face
of the MSI's continued existence.


The National Alliance with the MSI as its core party rode a
wave of popular disgust with corrupt old-style politics to
win
13.5 percent of votes at general elections. 


The MSI was founded in 1946 by petty officials from the rump
fascist Republic of Salo that Mussolini headed as a Nazi
German
puppet regime in northern Italy from late 1943-1945.
Associated with Rome salutes, blackshirts, thuggish youths
and nostalgia for the ``Duce,'' it spent almost its entire
existence on the fringes of politics.


An old guard minority led by former MSI leader Pino Rauti
had bitterly opposed Fini's drive to disband the party,
accusing
him of attempting to deny history for sheer opportunism.

The congress adopted a motion, with only five votes against,
condemning all forms of anti-Semitism on the 50th
anniversary of
the liberation of the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Poland.

Yeah,  well, I talk like a Marxist and I hang around with
lots of them, but I'm not a Marxist. And I'm sure glad I
don't walk like one.