« What A Bunch Of Crap This Is | Main | Correction: Byrd And The Secret Hold »

Thursday, August 31, 2006

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83451c1db69e200d8342fac9a53ef

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference HuffPo: No Fascism To See Here:

» R.J. Escow Not Only Misses The Train - He Doesn't Even Show Up At The Station from Hyscience
bin Laden has talked about restoring the Caliphate, the empire that existed in the southern Mediterranean centuries ago. That is nothing--it's deranged, but essentially it is a vision of a totalitarian empire with him leading under some kind of pervert... [Read More]

» Islamism and ur-fascism from alphabet city
Eskow, who says Islamic fascism "promoters" have "completely failed to grasp the lessons of history," would be well served to familiarize himself with Teheri's twelve characteristics of generic fascism and how they apply to Islamism [Read More]

» R.J. Escow Not Only Misses The Train - He Doesn't Even Show Up At The Station from Hyscience
bin Laden has talked about restoring the Caliphate, the empire that existed in the southern Mediterranean centuries ago. That is nothing--it's deranged, but essentially it is a vision of a totalitarian empire with him leading under some kind of pervert... [Read More]

» There is no Spoon from In the Bullpen
A blogger at the Huffington Post, R.J. Escrow writes radical Islam is not fascism, an argument weve had here a time or two and indeed it is a form of facism more related to nazism.  Escrow does what so many people do when it comes to fascism; t... [Read More]

Comments

Feed You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.

What an interesting version of fascism Eskow has. By writing "collaboration with large corporations," I assume he means placing restrictions upon how they can do business and being more of a nanny state. By writing fascists were "viciously anti-Communist and anti- liberal" I can only presume Eskow realizes fascism was a competitor to communism and the movement was anti-free society (Eskow uses the term anti-Liberal), but both were giant socialist states. The Italians also were not particularly against Jews, that would have been the Nazis, and while the Nazi Regime was fascist, the differences between fascism and nazism are huge.

That's why it's rather humorous for Eskow to write "anyone with a grasp of history" before getting everything wrong.

Fascism is a constant chameleon of history. Nothing wrong with heeding Santayana's words about history and how it repeats itself. Fascism changes its colors with a new surname for each new movement or ideology that pulls its tail. The tail falls off and a new one grows. It's still the same wicked lizard. The only thing that changes is the secular or religious nature of the beast; and unfortunately, the more deadly weaponry used to feed that beast.

Rome was actually a fairly democratic 'fascist' state. That's how it managed to be one of the most successful civilizations on the planet. Too bad Constantine lopped its tail off when he switched Rome's secular acceptance of all Romans to the ideology of Christianity and paved the way for one-thousand years of the Dark Ages. Catholic fascism.

One can play with words all day long and toy with meanings, but the beast remains no matter what. It just changes it colors and regenerates its rudder when the old one falls off.

How simple people become when they mouth the verse but miss the meaning between the lines. Scary, frightening stuff to read such banal sophistry and to know others will believe it. Depressing......

The comments to this entry are closed.

Donations Appreciated

Infolinks

Blog Ads


Syndigo

AdSense

Search

Wikio Top Fifty

  • Wikio - Top Blogs - Politics

Memeorandum

Find the best blogs at Blogs.com.

Blog Roll

November 2009

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30          

Technorati


Blog powered by TypePad

2006 Weblog Awards