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Originally Posted by loquitur
tisonlyi, your post just illustrates my point that it's possible to see fascism everywhere, if only you want to. It also means that people should be very, very, very careful about tossing the "f" word around, because almost every popular modern movement has certain elements traceable to the same roots as the fascists.
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I think you can trace the roots of anything to anything else at some point... after all there is nothing new under the sun.
It follows then, that if you want to be cautious and prescriptive about the use of 'fascism', you have to be careful about 'socialism', 'communism', 'capitalism', etc.
Debasing the terms to the level of insults seems to me somewhat dangerous. Removing all serious meaning from the terminology and allowing some dangerous ideas to sneak from under the rock of the, now, epithet. As dangerous as seeking to prove that there is ONE TRUE PATH.
After all, if there was ONE TRUE PATH, what price wouldn't you pay to achieve it?
I think you know that though. it's late here.
