I'm not sure how this piece illuminates anything.
To be sure Berlusconi is a right wing coporate boot
boy
but a fascist in the technical sense of the term?
(and precision *does* matter here). No.
Schroeder is a right wing social democrat and clearly
not a friend of the working class ( although he does
have the merit of having infuriated Bush )
but people like Schroeder were packed off to
concentration camps almost immediately after Hitler's
accession to power.
I'm not normally a proponent of the political
deconstruction of pieces but this seems to me to be a
piece of political work or nothing and its politics
are vague and confusing.
Fascism *is* unfortunately a threat once more and we
can't afford to be complacent but neither can we
afford to muddy the waters.
michael
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If this piece is comparing B+S to M+H then yeah, I don't know what they have
in common other than currently leading the nations that M+H used to run.
This is totally z-grade political commentary and I am surprised you even
bothered to comment on it. I've seen it said that allusions to Hitler
*always* cheapen political discourse, and that is entirely what this "piece"
(I would hesitate to call it that) is: cheap.

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From: "Michael Szpakowski" <szpako@yahoo.com>
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> I'm not sure how this piece illuminates anything.
> To be sure Berlusconi is a right wing coporate boot
> boy
> but a fascist in the technical sense of the term?
> (and precision *does* matter here). No.
> Schroeder is a right wing social democrat and clearly
> not a friend of the working class ( although he does
> have the merit of having infuriated Bush )
> but people like Schroeder were packed off to
> concentration camps almost immediately after Hitler's
> accession to power.
> I'm not normally a proponent of the political
> deconstruction of pieces but this seems to me to be a
> piece of political work or nothing and its politics
> are vague and confusing.
> Fascism *is* unfortunately a threat once more and we
> can't afford to be complacent but neither can we
> afford to muddy the waters.
> michael
> — Stephan Hausmeister <stephan@angelus.demon.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.berlusmuscolinischroeder.fsnet.co.uk
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