Leftside
This discussion so much about what fascism means per say. Rather, as johnny post that you have quoted specifically states, it is about a fascist must also be a Nazi/racist.
The text you added here has no mention of either, so I'm not quite sure what you are trying to achieve.
Hello BR,
Sorry for not responding sooner - I tried on Sunday morning but buggered up while trying to Preview.
Anyway, what I was trying to achieve was to give a definition of fascism - and how it is nation-specific, and very much driven by the passion and ideologies of an individual and subsequently their political party. I was also trying to make the point that Nazism was a form of fascism and that fascism is now a term used to describe the kinds of totalitarian, authoritiarian, anti-democratic etc regimes and political parties we can refer to based on historical experience.
PDC is a fascist. He claims he is not a racist, and it is perfectly reasonable to accept this claim. His salute, his Dux and fasces tattoos align him with Italian fascism and not Nazism. However, through his actions he has demonstrated that he has some identification with Lazio Ultras who contain an element that is proud to associate itself with Nazism, including references to the Holocaust. Therefore, it is reasonable to question whether his own brand of fascism actually lies closer to Nazism than he would care to admit publicly. Of course, he could just be a passionate, politicised individual who has taken inspiriation from the ideologies of one of his own country's political parties, but who only wants to adhere to certain aspects and dismiss others.
I wonder if there was ever a thread on a Lazio Ultras site that debated whether PDC had the right to call himself a fascist yet declare himself a non-racist?
I still find non-racist fascism unacceptable for the reasons I gave in my earlier post (the second italicised paragraph was italicised in error - they're all my own words).
Sorry for continuing the PDC-fascism-Nazism debate, but I thought it would be impolite not to respond to your post.
All the best.
