The toltalitarism model of the understanding of the authoritarian regimes was real popular in the '50s and 60's but has fallen out of favor with recognition that totalitarian regimes act to a great degree in reaction to pragmatic realities and not ideology
Could you please point me to some reading on the issue?
Calling people nazis or fascists is generally a misleading propagandist move, I am not contending this point. But I don't understand sabotabby's claim that people who say that the man who flew his airplane into the IRS building was a marxist-sympathizer are in fact conflating nazism and socialism. I failed to see the link so apparent to mlle sabo, yet she did not care to elaborate.
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Date: 2010-04-01 04:40 am (UTC)Could you please point me to some reading on the issue?
Calling people nazis or fascists is generally a misleading propagandist move, I am not contending this point. But I don't understand sabotabby's claim that people who say that the man who flew his airplane into the IRS building was a marxist-sympathizer are in fact conflating nazism and socialism. I failed to see the link so apparent to mlle sabo, yet she did not care to elaborate.