Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

Christophe Grandsire writes:

 > > 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.
 >
This seems a little surprising, given that North Korea is generally
described (in English) as "Stalinist", and you consider Stalin to be
"fascist".

I wonder if this message will go through - I sent another on the same
subject twice, and still haven't received it back.  Anyone else get it?

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