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[El Blanco]

El Blanco, if you just look up the word "fascism" you will quickly learn that the word itself did not even exsist prior to 1921. It is most probable that its origin links to the coming of Italy's "El Duce"/Mussolini.

Yes it originates from fascistii (sp?), which, if memory serves me, was Mussolini's party. Even if the word didn't come into existence until just prior to WW2, that doesn't mean people before that couldn't fit the description.

I've done plenty of reading. If you did some more than the communist pamphlets they gave out after your recess break, you'd know how bullshit and arbitrary these stupid lists are.

As for Lincoln and FDR, as much as they were racist, hypocritical and un-insightful,

They were none of these, but hey, you got that "I'm a 14, angry, overprivalaged white kid listening to too much Rage Against the Machine" rant going, so why stop now?

I think that calling either of them "fascist" is a little too much.

Of course it is, but both men fit the criterea of your list.

Anyways, if you have been following the news the past 2,5 years you might, on the other hand, see how well all 14 of these discriptions fit onto a more current regime.

There are a lot of regimes in the world right now. You really need to narrow it down. And most of them are older than 5 years.

Touchy subject matter, isn't it?

It must be. You are apparently affraid to get to the point, if you ever had one.

That is why a whole section of the ruling class hands over power to a military leader which establishes the rule of the sword, that is a military dictatorship to guarantee the maintenance of capitalism. This is a key feature of fascism (and national socialism is just fascism by another name).

Actually, most private bussinesses in every regime we can call fascist so far ended up nationalized or under very strit government control (military overseers on the bords etc). Sounds kind of communist, doesn't it?

If the US economy were to crash tommorow, George Bush would most definatley launch some kind of "state emergency".

Well,ya. What you have him do? Sit back and say "the proletariate can fix this" and dismantle the government?