Fair enough then.

Incidentally, this discussion of Franco's fascists has put me in the mood to watch the excellent Pan's Labyrinth. Can't say it's exactly giving me warm fuzzy feelings about fascists. It also quite nicely illustrates two of the reasons I loathe fascism so deeply: Its anti-intellectualism, and its pointless macho militarism. As far as I'm concerned fascism is just as broken and hopeless a philosophy as communism.

And for what it's worth, I don't buy any of this "Nazis were not fascists" nonsense. The only distinction I can see is that the Nazis heaped a large dollop of anti-semitic paranoia on top of their fascism.

Quote Originally Posted by Insane Apache
The fascists had the best uniforms by far. They are the Gaultiers, whilst the communists were more Bon Marche.
I don't know how you can say that. Murderous war criminal he may be, but no political extremist looks better in a photo than Che Guevara.