Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 19, 2002, 19:06 |
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En réponse à Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>:
>
> I don't think I've ever seen the Japanese military regime in the 1930s
> and
> early 40s ever labled as "fascist". Undoubtedly, there are people
> who'd
> claim it was (hey, I know people who think Bill Clinton 's a fascist!),
> but
> it's interesting you should introduce it here.
>
Well, the ideology behind this militaristic regime was based also on
hypernationalism and xenophobia, pretty near to the Fascist and Nazi regimes.
If you can extend fascism to include nazism and franquism, you can easily
include the Japanese regime.
> Would you call it Fascist? What modern, non-democratic governments would
> you
> not call Fascist? (Please don't take those two questions as any kind
> of
> insults - I'm genuinely curious how devide this semantic space, and in
> particular what, in your opinion, is the difference between "fascism"
> and
> "totalitarianism".)
>
Well, pretty much all the non-democratic governments I know of. Cuba is not
fascist, neither is China or North Korea. I don't know enough of African
regimes to give an opinon on them. Modern Russia is still totalitarian, despite
a pretension of democracy, but it's not fascist anymore. My definition of
fascism *is* precise and simple. That's why I keep it.
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.
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