From: rwhyte-AT-freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 00:22:34 -0600 (MDT)
Subject: Re: How fascism began


Actually it is interesting to read how fascism in its inception grew out
of appropriated elements of Marxism; this illustrates the danger of an
isolated reading of Marxist "ideals"...

An understanding of fascism is also essential because it sheds light on
our current post-industrial state...Debord observed this...


On Fri, 18 Oct 1996, Luciano Dondero wrote:

> At 21.03 17/10/96 -0400, Louis R Godena wrote:
> (big snip)
> >An ignominious ending to an auspicious debut
> 
> I beg your pardon? What was "auspicious" about fascism's debut??
> 
> Besides which, fascism can never be interpreted as a set of "ideas" (much
> less, "ideals"). It was only through its deeds -- upto and including the
> Holocaust -- that fascism was shown for what it was.
> 
> Anybody cares on a marxism list to argue that there was anything good about
> fascism?
> 
> Yours in dismay,
> --Luciano Dondero--
>