Piatek’s article on “Fascism” was not a bad summary of some aspects, but missed all the essentials.

In contemporary terms, by the way, Mussolini, who founded the program, was not much of a Fascist. Had he been able to resist the carrot of Austria, dangled by Hitler, and, like Franco, not allied with the Nazis, he may have been in power another two decades, who knows?

Without reading Luigi Barzini or watching Fellini’s Roma over and over, any examination of the Italian variety is naive.

A good or bad thing? If that is the level of analysis, might as well just consult 1066 And All That, and have done with it.

Franco and Pinochet were, admittedly, the more efficient and rational of the exportable varieties.

“Communist-Fascist”, by the way, is a sensible term, since the Chinese Communists practice a virtual form of “nationalism” and also own all or a majority share of the corporations, including the foreign ones.