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From: ethan@ut-emx.UUCP (Ethan Tecumseh Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: The lawsuit of the year.
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Date: 26 Jan 88 19:21:51 GMT
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Posted: Tue Jan 26 13:21:51 1988

In article <6385@oberon.USC.EDU>, gazit@ganelon.usc.edu (Salit) writes:
> In article <2445@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> lazarus@athena.mit.edu (Michael Friedman) writes:
> >
> >Fascism - A centralized, autocratic, national regime with severely
> >nationalistic policies, excercising regimentation of industry,
> >commerce, and finance, and forcible suppression of opposition.
> 
> By your definition the USSR is a fascist country.  

Unfortunately, it would be difficult to distinguish the difference
between a fascist state and the USSR in operational terms.

If I am allowed to appeal to their official ideology then it becomes
trivial to make that distinction.  "Totalitarian" used to be a good
general term before the Reaganites tried to exempt rightwing governments
from that label.

Personally, when I say fascist I mean what everyone else means ...
someone who disagrees with me in public.
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