tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post260984621800827246..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Ein Umma, Ein Dar al-Islam, Ein Caliph.truepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-33160176318007703332007-03-12T14:15:00.000-07:002007-03-12T14:15:00.000-07:00Fascism is local and yet universal, particular and...<I>Fascism is local and yet universal, particular and also general.</I><BR/><BR/>Fascism is universal? It exists even in primitive-hunter gatherer societies where man is highly bound to ritual, but not to any big man? Big men have existed on this earth little more than 5000 years.<BR/><BR/>Totalitarianism, despotism, sado-masochism, enslavement, ritually- bound sacrality, first among equals: why not use such general terminology? why the appeal of "fascism"? Everyone is called a fascist now a days I wonder if it means anything more to the kids today than calling someone arrogant, manly, etctruepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-81747705969729175082007-03-12T13:57:00.000-07:002007-03-12T13:57:00.000-07:00I don't lump Nazis with fascism itself as the end ...I don't lump Nazis with fascism itself as the end of the discussion. Fascism is local and yet universal, particular and also general. Franco was as much a fascist as Hitler, and yet the two nations were utterly different in practice. There need not be an exact match between one fascist programme and another, only great similarites of base. Looking at our restricted definition of fascism as from the 1920s t0 1940s misses the point of Ur Fascism, the very roots of the fascism that grows here and there across time.<BR/><BR/>Regarding my comment at New English Review, I could kick myself for my fit of aphasia: "All the lawyers in my village are named Smith and Wesson."<BR/><BR/>I'll kill ten innocent by-standers for that mistake!Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-488423384210047562007-03-12T13:08:00.000-07:002007-03-12T13:08:00.000-07:00Here's the Permalink to Hugh's post, which include...Here's the <A HREF="http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm?blog_id=6219" REL="nofollow">Permalink</A> to Hugh's post, which includes a mysterious Dag reference to a Russo-Islamic symbol. I always figured Dag was a Colt man.<BR/><BR/>Are Islam and Naziism closely analogous? Maybe one day they will be. But the Third Reich was hardly the stable thousand year Reich promised, and arguably it could not have lasted long even if they had won the war because its desperate questing for perfection was all too worldly and unrealistically activist and bound to stir up trouble within and without Berlin. Islam has lasted 1400 years, how many of those under a Caliphate? So what do the Muslims know about despotism that Hitler did not? Was it things as simple as allowing Jews to be dhimmis rather than an object to be eradicated at all costs on the false promise that this would rid modern man of his anomie? Islam only promises virgins or raisins in paradise. In this world you can just submit, shut up, and go home, plant a few crops and beat your wife: you don't have to constantly prove your modernity is the best.<BR/><BR/>For this reason, perhaps we should fear an Islam that has managed to scrabble together a few nukes much more than our forebears feared the Nazis. Arguably the analogy to the West's favorite devil does not capture this adequately.<BR/><BR/>Many might choose Islam's promise of lazy despotism. The only problem is that an orthodox Islam will never support the kind of economy and creativity that can feed anywhere near the present population of the planet. And if one day we're all the Umma, if we stop being dhimmi slaves doing all the economic heavy lifting and just sign on to the Koran club, who gets to starve first?truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.com