Fascism Doesn’t Always Roar... Sometimes, It Creeps on Cat’s Feet
by Mark S. Tucker
25 Jan 06
Lexicographers to the side, a word can, in certain instances, be best defined by its most ardent supporters. Catholics are not the wise choice in consulting a description of zen, History teachers are ill-equipped to define the vocabulary of quantum physicists, and one would not repair to the hut of a palm reader for technical terms in the building of 747s, so to whom might we go for a reliable working understanding of ‘fascism’? Why, to a fascist, of course!
And who better than Il Duce Benito Mussolini, a figure who once extolled it as the marriage of corporations and the State. One of the most faithful of its practitioners, we can trust this gentleman’s insight, I think, seeing as how he yet stands as a reliable yardstick, heels kicking in the air though they may have for his pains. [...]
25 Jan 06
Lexicographers to the side, a word can, in certain instances, be best defined by its most ardent supporters. Catholics are not the wise choice in consulting a description of zen, History teachers are ill-equipped to define the vocabulary of quantum physicists, and one would not repair to the hut of a palm reader for technical terms in the building of 747s, so to whom might we go for a reliable working understanding of ‘fascism’? Why, to a fascist, of course!
And who better than Il Duce Benito Mussolini, a figure who once extolled it as the marriage of corporations and the State. One of the most faithful of its practitioners, we can trust this gentleman’s insight, I think, seeing as how he yet stands as a reliable yardstick, heels kicking in the air though they may have for his pains. [...]
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