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Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Thursday, June 20, 2002, 19:08
Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> >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.
I know basically nothing of the interior politics of Japan during the pre-1945 bit of Hirohito's reign, so I'm not having any opinion of my own. BTW, is "franquism" an accepted term? I've seen Franco's ideology refered to as "falangism".
> > > 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.
We-ell, it still doesn't seem much useful to me, and does leave us without a term for dictatorial rule by the far right. Also, in what way is Russia more totalitarian than is China or Cuba? I did write a lengthy response to you first post, which seems to've vanished in thin air. Apart from various comments on economy etc that others have since supplied, I also wrote that I strongly disagree with the notion that the political landscape is a circle. It's, if anything, a polydimensional space with a number of more-or-less independent axes. I also pointed out that "the far right" isn't rightist, and that the true right extreme of the left-right axis isn't, in fact, much similar at all to Stalinesque socialism. Andreas _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com