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From: Terrence Mc Donough <TERRENCE.MCDONOUGH@xxxxxx>
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OK, I'll take a crack at it.

Fascism in its classic European form is distinguished by the
following three characteristics.

1. A populist appeal to middle strata on the basis of perceived
threats from both above and below them in the social scale.

2. The location of the solution to this problem in excluding the
representives of the threatening upper and lower strata from
influence in the state.  A willingness to abrogate forms of bourgeois
democracy may also be necessary to meet this criterion.

3. The promulgation of an ideology of nationalism and national
superiority usually coupled with some kind of racist appeal.

Without going into his history in detail it seems to me Buchanan
meets these criteria, knows he meets these criteria, and consequently
has had no problem identifying himself with the legal cases against
extradition of various WWII era Eastern European fascists.

The recently concluded Louisiana contest between Buchanan and Gramm
can then be interpreted as a contest between a fascist candidate and
a bourgeois economist attempting to look like a populist.  The
fascist won.

Reuters reports that British bookmakers have just halved Buchanan's
odds on becoming president from 100/1 to 50/1.  Gramm's odds
"plummeted" from 14/1 to 33/1.

Terry McDonough


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