"Mike Flannigan" <eddiehaskell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Eddie Haskell <hhshsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Fascism, Nazism and Conservatism
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> European fascism drew on existing anti-modernist conservatism, and on
> the conservative reaction to communism and 19th-century socialism.
> Conservative thinkers such as historian Oswald Spengler provided much
> of the world view (Weltanschauung) of the Nazi movement.
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> In Britain, the conservative Daily Mail enthusiastically backed Sir
> Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, and part of the Conservative
> Party sup****ted closer ties with Nazi Germany.
> When defeat in World War II ideologically and historically
> discredited fascism, almost all Western conservatives tried to distance
> themselves from it. Nevertheless, many post-war Western conservatives
> continued to admire the Franco regime in Spain, clearly conservative
> but also fascist in origin. With the end of the Franco regime and
> ****tugal's Estado Novo in the 1970s, the relation****p between
> conservatism and classical European fascism was further weakened.
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> Militarism is perhaps the most striking similarity between Fascism and
> contem****ary American conservatism. Of course, there are many liberals
> in America who sup****t the military and even call for increased
> military spending.
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> Even so, American liberals are traditionally more skeptical of the
> military than American conservatives. It is often said that
> Neoconservatives, like Hitler, see the military as a paradigm for
> problem solving (even in situations that may render militarism
> impractical or unethical).
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> The relation****p of fascism to right-wing ideologies (including some
> that are described as neo-fascist) is still an issue for conservatives
> and their opponents. Especially in Germany, there is a constant
> exchange of ideology and persons, between the influential national-
> conservative movement, and self-identified national-socialist groups.
> In Italy too, there is no clear line between conservatives, and
> movements inspired by the Italian Fascism of the 1920s to 1940s,
> including the Alleanza Nazionale which is member of the governing
> coalition under premier Silvio Berlusconi. Conservative attitudes to
> the 20th-century fascist regimes are still an issue.
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