Search Results for: "fascism"

What Makes A Regime Legitimate?0
/ February 13, 2012 2:00 pm

What Makes A Regime Legitimate?

..., as evidence of a  (necessarily) vast conspiracy to influence world opinion. Other thinkers, like Joseph Massad, are less radical, but do insist upon the possibility and necessity of a “third choice” between “imperialism and fascism,” framing Western and Arab intervention as imperialism and dictatorial rulers as fascism. Now, the instinctive opposition to imperialism in all forms and colors is unsurprising and understandable; after the legacy of...

Acknowledging the Americas5
/ October 24, 2011 12:44 am

Acknowledging the Americas

...mbers of the global press have evoked an antiquated mentality, conceiving of this phenomenon as revamped communism, resurrecting Cold War terminology of containment and the pernicious red tide. Others have sensationally taken fascism or dictatorship as their metaphorical base. Regardless, the race to categorize the phenomenon under one convenient label has trampled all of its nuanced political subtlety. As a result, many considerations of US fore...