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   From: heheheh@heheheh.com   
      
   quintal wrote   
   > hitler was a socialist and a democrat.   
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   >   
      
   So says the coward Frenchman.   
      
   No coward or a liar like a right winger, I always say.   
      
   Lack of education, lack of brains and lack of balls makes you weak and   
   gullible.   
      
      
      
   Fascism, Naziism and Conservatism   
      
   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.   
      
   In Britain, the conservative Daily Mail enthusiastically backed Sir   
   Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, and part of the Conservative   
   Party supported 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   
   Portugal's Estado Novo in the 1970s, the relationship between   
   conservatism and classical European fascism was further weakened.   
      
   Militarism is perhaps the most striking similarity between Fascism and   
   contemporary American conservatism. Of course, there are many liberals   
   in America who support the military and even call for increased   
   military spending.   
      
   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).   
      
   The relationship 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.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)