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There's a line in Paul Simon's song St. Judy's Comet, a sort of lullaby, about his reason for writing it. "If I can't sing my boy to sleep," he sings, "it makes your famous daddy look so dumb." More than twenty years ago, when my older son Zafar said to me that I should write a book he could read, I thought about that line. Haroun and the Sea of Stories, written in 1989-90, a dark time for me, was the result. I tried to fill it with light and even to give it a happy ending. Happy endings were things I had become very interested in at the time.
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This is a fable and has the conventions of a fable or fairy tale, yet it's a modern one in that Rushdie nods many times toward the audience as if to say, "Guess what? I'm having fun with this, and you should, too." It's mostly a wry commentary on families, life, and how everyone is searching for his own identity in his own way -- but it's done so well, and with so much brio, that it's almost impossible not to like it even though if you've read many fables or fairy tales, you know how this is going to end.
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This is my first experience reading Salman Rushdie, and it's quite a treat. Mr. Rushdie has wide-ranging classical knowledge which he brings to his narrative. His use of the English language is stunning. For the first 100 pages of this novel, I was charmed by his skills.
For me, the problem with this novel is the story. In spite of the wonderful language, I was never able to connect with the story. In fact, after the first 100 pages, I found myself skimming rather than engrossing myself in the reading. Too bad, because Mr. Rushdie is a wonderful writer -- but a not-as-good story creator.
To illustrate: A dog named Bear, and a bear named Dog, were amusing when first introduced, but this name reversal quickly grew stale and, eventually, annoying. Although these two characters contributed to the story, it was not enough to rescue a tale that stretched on far too long.
So, would I buy this novel for my own 12-year-old son? No. I don't find the story strong enough to hold (what I remember of) his interest.
For his writing, five stars.
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Skip to comments.Fascism and Socialism: Still Not Opposites
Posted on 02/22/2014 2:49:10 PM PST by Sherman Logan
The Eurasian movement of Putin and his allies draws from both Nazism and Stalinism.
Dear Reader (Including the trenchcoat-wearing FCC minister with breath like hes been sucking a urinal cake looking over my shoulder, tapping his BIC pen on his glass eye, and sighing every time I write something he doesnt like),
Ive got to bang out this newsletter pretty quickly. Im sitting in a too-small fake wicker chair at the coffee shop at the Broadmoor (one of my favorite hotels, btw). The time difference here puts me two hours behind at six in the morning. Plus, I dont want the housekeeping staff to find the body in my room. If I didnt need coffee so badly I would have taken care of that already. But one must prioritize. I think the high altitude here is making my brain itch.
Timothy Snyder has written the best piece Ive seen on whats going on in Kiev. Its worth reading just as a primer. But its also interesting in other ways. I had not read a lot about the Eurasian Union, a proposed counterweight to the European Union, in much the same way the Legion of Doom is a counterweight to the Justice League. Putin and a band of avowed National Bolshevik intellectuals are in effect trying to put the band back together. Snyder writers:
The Eurasian Union is the enemy of the European Union, not just in strategy but in ideology. The European Union is based on a historical lesson: that the wars of the twentieth century were based on false and dangerous ideas, National Socialism and Stalinism, which must be rejected and indeed overcome in a system guaranteeing free markets, free movement of people, and the welfare state. Eurasianism, by contrast, is presented by its advocates as the opposite of liberal democracy.
The Eurasian ideology draws an entirely different lesson from the twentieth century. Founded around 2001 by the Russian political scientist Aleksandr Dugin, it proposes the realization of National Bolshevism. Rather than rejecting totalitarian ideologies, Eurasianism calls upon politicians of the twenty-first century to draw what is useful from both fascism and Stalinism. Dugins major work, The Foundations of Geopolitics, published in 1997, follows closely the ideas of Carl Schmitt, the leading Nazi political theorist. Eurasianism is not only the ideological source of the Eurasian Union, it is also the creed of a number of people in the Putin administration, and the moving force of a rather active far-right Russian youth movement. For years Dugin has openly supported the division and colonization of Ukraine.
The point man for Eurasian and Ukrainian policy in the Kremlin is Sergei Glazyev, an economist who like Dugin tends to combine radical nationalism with nostalgia for Bolshevism. He was a member of the Communist Party and a Communist deputy in the Russian parliament before cofounding a far-right party called Rodina, or Motherland. In 2005 some of its deputies signed a petition to the Russian prosecutor general asking that all Jewish organizations be banned from Russia.
Some of this was news to me. I was familiar with the National Bolshevism of the early Nazi years. Thinkers like the Ukrainian Bolshevik Karl Radek and the Nazi Otto Strasser dabbled with the idea of merging Bolshevik and Nazi ideology. After all, if youre already a National Socialist its not that long a trip to being a National Bolshevik, now is it? Some left-wing members of the Nazi military described themselves as National Bolsheviks as well. But ultimately, National Bolshevism as an intellectual movement died in the crib. Or so I thought.
What I did not know is that National Bolshevism is making such a comeback. And while, its evil and a national-security threat and all that, I cant help but smile.
National Bolshevism must strike some on the left as quite perplexing. After all, Bolshevism and Nazism like fascism and socialism are opposites, right?
If you read my book, youd know I consider this the greatest myth and/or lie of the 20th century (coming in a distant second: the idea that there is a difference between good flan and bad flan).
Funny enough, the Eurasianists are counting on this myth for their propaganda campaign. They insist that the protesters in Kiev are trying to stage a brown revolution or fascist coup. In other words the de facto fascists are calling the anti-fascists fascists. And apparently lots of folks are falling for it. Snyder again:
Why exactly do people with such views think they can call other people fascists? And why does anyone on the Western left take them seriously? One line of reasoning seems to run like this: the Russians won World War II, and therefore can be trusted to spot Nazis. Much is wrong with this. . . .
The other source of purported Eurasian moral legitimacy seems to be this: since the representatives of the Putin regime only very selectively distanced themselves from Stalinism, they are therefore reliable inheritors of Soviet history, and should be seen as the automatic opposite of Nazis, and therefore to be trusted to oppose the far right.
Again, much is wrong about this. . . .
Snyders rebuttals are good (Ive trimmed them mostly for space). But they dont cut to the heart of it.
First, lets clear some underbrush. The idea that Communism and Nazism are opposites is more of a utilitarian idea than a core conviction for the Left. It is a rationalization that allows the Left to cut around the historical tumor of Nazism and fascism and say, That has nothing to do with us.
But the simple fact is that the hard Left has always endorsed or at least sympathized with national-socialist countries. What do you think Cuba is? Its nationalistic and its socialistic. Venezuela under Chávez and now Maduro is nationalist and socialist. Nicaragua in the 1980s, etc., etc. Read a speech by any socialist dictator and swap out the word socialize for nationalize: The meaning of the sentences doesnt change one iota. Nationalized health care is socialized medicine. Even Obamas weak-tea socialistic rhetoric is usually dolled up in the rhetoric of nationalism, even militaristic nationalism. Lets all be like SEAL Team Six! Lets make this a Sputnik Moment.
Most of the Left in the U.S. didnt really hate the German national-socialists until Stalin told them to. That the useful idiots thought Stalins command to turn on his one-time Nazi ally was rooted in deep ideological conviction just proves the depths of their idiocy.
After all, its not like the Left suddenly turned on Stalin when he embraced nationalism wholeheartedly and talked of fighting the Nazis as part of the Great Patriotic War for Mother Russia. But, hey, maybe Im missing the deep Marxist themes in the phrase Great Patriotic War for Mother Russia.
If you think this is all semantic faculty-lounge argy-bargy, consider the fact that North Korea is in many ways as Nazi as the Nazis were. Its a nationalist country that subscribes to eugenic theories that it uses to justify the industrial torture and slaughter of its own citizens. In fact, North Koreas eugenics is crazier than Nazi Germanys was. Im not trying to minimize the evil of the Holocaust, but Jew is a real category of human being and eugenics generally werent discredited in the 1930s. Eighty years later, North Korea believes that the political views of people are genetically heritable for generations. So you can get sent to a death camp if your great uncle said something nice about America or if your second cousin lives in South Korea.
But because of the emotional and political investment in the idea that Nazism has nothing to do with Communism, North Korea is put in a category of lesser evil. If the Kims just described themselves as Nazis but kept all of the same policies it would be vastly easier to rally public opinion against their decades of murder. But when you talk about the evil of Communist regimes, a lot of people idiotically roll their eyes. Everyone is a brave anti-Nazi now that theyre all gone, but many are afraid to devote a fraction of that passion when it comes to the heirs, imitators, and competitors of Nazism.
Richard Pipes had the best pithy summation of the difference between Nazism and Bolshevism. They arent opposites, he argued, theyre both heresies of socialism.
I agree with this entirely, but step back from that a bit. Socialism itself is a heresy a heresy of tribalism. Socialism is simply an attempt to gussy up ancient tribal tendencies in modern garb. Nazism was tribalism of one race. Communism is tribalism of one class. Italian fascism was tribalism of one nation.
There are of course, better and worse forms of tribalism. And, I would argue that a little tribalism, like a little nationalism, is a healthy thing, insofar as communities arent held together by reason alone. Theyre held together by a complex set of sentiments, and a politics that doesnt take account of that will necessarily fail. As Edmund Burke writes, politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which the reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.
But here is the important point. Looking back on the long history of humanity, tribalism simple or complex was the norm for 99 percent of our time on Earth. It wasnt until 200-300 years ago that a different path emerged. (Yes, Christianity was a big leap forward in advancing a universal conception of humanity, in principle. But in practice it was often coopted by tribalism in one form or another. We can talk about that more another time.) The different path emerged largely in England and spread from there. This different path recognized the sovereignty of the individual, the necessity of the rule of law, democratic legitimacy, and private property, and the inherent dignity of bourgeois labor.
As Ive written before, what makes America special is that we took Englands culture of liberty and broadened it out into a virtual tribe of liberty. I say virtual because we took the ethnic and racial components out of it (and, no, we didnt do it overnight). You can be a progressive or a liberal or a social democrat and still believe in all of the things that define the tribe of liberty. You can also be a nationalist, a patriot, or a traditionalist and believe in all of these things. But go too far in either direction and you can fall off the path. Perhaps path is the wrong word. Bridge might make more sense. After all theres a left side and a right side of the road. But if you fall off a bridge, all you do is fall down.
Seen from this perspective the differences between Bolshevism, Nazism, Maoism, Italian Fascism, North Korean Juche, et al may be interesting or meaningful (the differences between football and rugby are interesting and meaningful, but at the end of the day theyre both just games). But seen from the broadest perspective, theyre simply different ways to fall off the bridge and back into the wilderness below.
My apologies if this newsletter was lacking in verve and panache this week. Maybe its the fact the Couch couldnt make it out West this week.
Also, if you want to unsubscribe from this newsletter, by all means do so. But in the spirit of William F. Buckley, let me ask you that you cancel your own damn subscription. I have asked the suits to put in or restore the unsubscribe button (I couldve sworn there used to be one).
Quick Zoë update. As Ive said before, were pretty sure that Zoë is a Carolina dog, and not a German Shepherd mix. She may be a mix of all sorts of stuff, of course. Though readers who think shes a Shiba Inu are probably giving a bit too much credit to the stock of stray dogs in rural South Carolina. Anyway, healthwise she seems to be thriving. But behaviorally she is a major handful. Obsessed with tracking down treats in the dirt and the snow, shes not much interested in listening to her humans. The other day, Zoë found a rabbits head under the snow and ran off with it. She wouldnt drop it for anything, much to my wifes dismay. Shes also turning into a dirt eater, which is bad enough outside. But inside is a real problem, which is why were going to put cayenne pepper in our potted plants. On the upside, she remains improbably cute and her commitment to squirrel chasing is total.
I think this is one of the best descriptions I've seen of modern statist ideologies:
Socialism is simply an attempt to gussy up ancient tribal tendencies in modern garb. Nazism was tribalism of one race. Communism is tribalism of one class. Italian fascism was tribalism of one nation. ...
You can be a progressive or a liberal or a social democrat and still believe in all of the things that define the tribe of liberty. You can also be a nationalist, a patriot, or a traditionalist and believe in all of these things. But go too far in either direction and you can fall off the path. Perhaps path is the wrong word. Bridge might make more sense. After all theres a left side and a right side of the road. But if you fall off a bridge, all you do is fall down.
Seen from this perspective the differences between Bolshevism, Nazism, Maoism, Italian Fascism, North Korean Juche, et al may be interesting or meaningful (the differences between football and rugby are interesting and meaningful, but at the end of the day theyre both just games). But seen from the broadest perspective, theyre simply different ways to fall off the bridge and back into the wilderness below.
Fascism and Socialism are brother and sister
Although our modern socialists' promise of greater freedom is genuine and sincere, in recent years observer after observer has been impressed by the unforeseen consequences of socialism, the extraordinary similarity in many respects of the conditions under "communism" and "fascism." As the writer Peter Drucker expressed it in 1939, "the complete collapse of the belief in the attainability of freedom and equality through Marxism has forced Russia to travel the same road toward a totalitarian society of un-freedom and inequality which Germany has been following. Not that communism and fascism are essentially the same. Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion, and it has proved as much an illusion in Russia as in pre-Hitler Germany."
No less significant is the intellectual outlook of the rank and file in the communist and fascist movements in Germany before 1933. The relative ease with which a young communist could be converted into a Nazi or vice versa was well known, best of all to the propagandists of the two parties. The communists and Nazis clashed more frequently with each other than with other parties simply because they competed for the same type of mind and reserved for each other the hatred of the heretic. Their practice showed how closely they are related. To both, the real enemy, the man with whom they had nothing in common, was the liberal of the old type. While to the Nazi the communist and to the communist the Nazi, and to both the socialist, are potential recruits made of the right timber, they both know that there can be no compromise between them and those who really believe in individual freedom.
-- F.A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom
Any socialist nation is intrinsically fascistic in character.
It has to be, in order to function.
not much difference between Fascism and Socialism, except F is honest enough not to lie to you all the time trying to tell you that your oppression is for your own good
Yes, a lot of the rhetoric was identical too
I'm not so sure this is accurate.
As JG says, Nazism says it is good for members of the chosen race, Communism says it's good for members of the chosen class, and Italian fascism always said it was good for Italians.
Yes, we do see examples of that from time to time.
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Communism, fascism—the same, in effect, as seen from descendants of many generations of Americans.
>>Fascism and Socialism are brother and sister<<
The parent is Totalitarianism.
I am sick of the left saying when we note that obozo is both a fascist and a communist that traditional labels mean these are opposites.
They are the same and we have been laboring under them both for the last 5 years.
EU is fascist as well
The Nazi party planks were virtually identical to the OWS list of demands.
Balint Vazsonyi, author of Americas 30 Years War, said it better and in fewer words: Nazism and Communism are the ultimate Marxist competitors.
maybe right.
(still, Communism does tend to shout a lot more, I think, than fascism about how "good" it is for you...it seems anyway.
and Naziism was just the German version of Communism/socialism
That is really hyperbolic.
Depending on definition, all modern political systems are fascistic to varying degrees.
But there's a huge difference between 10% fascist and 90% fascist.
IMO, referring to EU or USA as fascist in the same sense that N. Korea, China or Russia are is hyperbolic.
The EU is certainly socialistic which is leading to its inevitable collapse. Its when they collapse that things get nasty.
Here is a definition of Fascism .....
"dictatorial movement: any movement, ideology, or attitude that favors dictatorial government, centralized control of private enterprise, repression of all opposition, and extreme nationalism"
Change extreme nationalism to blind party loyalty and you pretty well much have it.
Just remember, 'centralized control of private enterprise' means they pick their ideological friends to control the manufacturing and commerce of the people.
So does Obama and the Democrats. Same deal, different century.
The end results will be the same as it is when all Utopian Statists achieve the levels of power that they have:
Genocide and suffering of millions.
Sorry, but I can't buy that one.
Nazism was anti-Marxist in the extreme.
Americans, for some obscure reason, have a tendency to think of Marxism and socialism as synonyms.
In actual fact, of course, Marxism is merely one branch of the socialist tree.
Marxism is international socialism, all the workers are to gang up on their oppressors.
Nazism, as its name says, is national socialism. All Germans, and by racist extension all Aryans, are to gang up on people of all other "races."
IOW, Marxism organizes the workers of the world horizontally, Nazism organizes the Aryans of the world vertically.
They cut across each other and are therefore deadly enemies. They are both socialists, but Nazism is not Marxist.
That is why, as others have noted, a young German of the 30s could switch so easily. Just begin thinking of himself as German Aryan first, rather than an internationalist socialist worker, and voila!
I always recall reading a speech of Herman Goering's from the mid 30s. To paraphrase it, in fascism you must have nationalism AND socialism because one without the other will not meet the needs of the people.
In the case of russia/china theres very little political freedom, but they have a lot more economic freedom than US.
Do US have political freedom or just an illusion of political freedom when both major party believe the same thing?
National Socialism and International Socialism are just two different denominations in the same "church".
The fight between them is of the same order as that which once existed between the Protestants and the Roman Catholic Church. Both obeyed the same deity, but were torn apart on doctrinal differences. Of course, the schism between the two branches never, ever, was as bloody as the confrontation between Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler. But it went on for a lot longer.
Likewise with the Nazis (Fascists) and the Soviets. Vladimir Putin is just the person who has formed an amalgamation, and a "ecumenical" reconciliation of the factions.
That does not make the existential threat of socialism any less deadly.
The danger is that fascism is always the softer sell than communism. See my post above.
I prefer to think of them as Al Capone vs Bugs Moran -- both vicious criminals who will kill anyone, with no remorse, that happens to get in their way.
I respect your opinion, but you're off base.
The tenets of both communism and Nazism are dipped from the same Marxist river.
I'm not about to go through the whole sphere of Marxist thought to convince you that communism and Nazism are integral branches of the Marxism tree.
On the surface, I think that you're embracing the incorrect European communist definition of Nazism, a conscious effort by the Euro-commies to separate themselves from their philosophical Marxist Nazi brothers.
Best wishes, FRiend
I am stealing that poster! Thanks, FRiend! ;-)
Capitalism: two people come together to agree on a price.
Socialism: two people come together to agree the other one is going to do it.
Fascism: the state agrees the other person needs supervision.
Communism: the state agrees the other person works for it.
Obviously I disagree. But thanks for being polite about it.
I hate toubled times.
Stalin only turned against Hitler when his non-aggression buddy broke his word and invaded him. Really unusual for Jonah to forget this.
Nationalism, like socialism, is collectivistic. National identity and patriotism are, after all, collective identities. The European right are far more focused on the traditional "organic" national collective than the American right is. As I have often pointed out on this forum, it was not a Communist but a French right winger who said "the individual is nothing; society is everything."
Nationalism was also originally a left-wing ideology aimed at the traditional complex and interlocking European aristocratic system. After the French Revolution various nationalities began to agitate for a state of their own rather than be ruled as subject peoples of emperors and kings of various kinds. One of the earliest of these romantic left wing nationalist movements was in Greece, where Lord Byron romantically died of some disease while hoping to romantically restore ancient Athens. Then you had the Irish, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Finns, Lithuanians, Albanians, Armenians, and just about every other group you can think of. The nationalism of the Irish (and of the other Celtic peoples) is still this Jacobin-influenced French Revolutionary variety.
It was only in the later nineteenth century that nationalism migrated to the right side of the spectrum with the celebration of localism and traditionalism as opposed to the universalism and rationalism of the early leftist nationalists.
Marxism has always been a form of left wing nationalism simply because it has always advocated (or claimed to advocate) "self-determination," which is essentially the same thing as the "planet of peoples" the European right wants so badly to create. And then after World War II the anti-colonialism movement began and nationalism rather than Communism began the selling point for the USSR and the International Left. Even "indigenous" religions are celebrated by the formerly atheist left in such organizations as the American Indian Movement.
Individualism is also an exceedingly complex ideology, and is present in both the left and the right. Some on the American right overestimate the importance of individualism in their own ideology IMHO.
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There is one major component of Fascism--especially the Catholic, Mediterranean, non-nordic Fascism practiced in greater or lesser degree by Fascist Italy, Franco Spain, Salazar Portugal, Vargas Brazil, Dollfuss Austria, and perhaps Peronist Argentina (though I'm not sure about this last one) that most Americans completely miss noticing because it is so radically different from anything they are used to. And that is the abolition of an ideological/partisan parliament in favor of a legislative body made up of various occupational groups (in Italy this was called the Chamber of Fasces and Corporations). The goal was to replace representation by ideology with representation by the various functions of society (Fascist "corporatism"). In Spain and Portugal, political parties as such did not exist at all, because they were considered unnecessary and undesirable. The whole point was a population wholly "organically" united by societal function like a living body, which was the original meaning of "totalitarianism" as advocated by Mussolini.
Of course, Nazism's racial obsessions have become the prime definition of "fascism," especially on the left. Because of America's unique racial situation (a situation older than the country itself), Americans naturally are drawn to this issue. The original Fascist corporatist concept, so essential to capital-F Fascism, is scarcely noticed by any American politician or philosopher of politics.
I note that at least two of the regimes enumerated above (Franco's Spain and Salazar's Portugal) are held in high regard by even conventional American conservatives. How familiar those admirers are of the corporatist ideology I do not know.
The Nazis could hardly be called Marxist since unlike the Communists in Russia they didn't abolish private property, didn't abolish the Church, in fact they invented their own church, The Reich Church with Ludwig Muller as its bishop.
I see your point regarding the Mediterranean variety .Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain were not the kind of industrial societies that Germany was so it's natural for the various sectors of these societies(tradesmen, farmers, students, etc) to be the major representatives of this form of fascism. Another glaring and deliberate tactic of the Left is to call fascism and fascists ''right wing''. Fascism is and always will be a creation of the Left.
Mussolini was a syndicalist, and most of these movements looked up to socialist theorist Georges Sorel as an alternative to orthodox Marxism.
Sorel's Reflections sur la Violence
was a textbook.
The Nazism-skeptical German right wing jurist, Carl Schmitt, wrote an excellent book about the anarchosyndicalist emphasis on myth and culture versus the orthodox Marxist emphasis on "science" and "historicism."
::Sigh:: By continuing to confuse the American and European concept of rightism, you show you paid no attention to what I said.
In Europe this organic collectivism is right wing. American-style individualism is not.
Look dude, Fascism is a leftist ideology, period. You aren't paying attention bozo.
Try reading Balint Vazsonyi. It might change your mind. He was a brilliant pianist who lived under both Nazism and then communism. He concluded that there was no difference between the two. His writings are mind-opening.
But I must ask one non-hostile question: do you see any connection between this syndicalist/fascist corporatism and the ideology of the Catholic Middle Ages or of Rerum Novarum?
It sounds sort of left-wing to me.
But your write-up on Corporatism is very good. Most Americans, I think, are not familiar with the concept.
"The Nazis could hardly be called Marxist since unlike the Communists in Russia they didnt abolish private property, didnt abolish the Church, in fact they invented their own church..."
Marxism is not about abolishing private property. That's communism. Marxism is about controlling private property. With communism, you abolish private property to control it. With fascism, you control private property via the bureaucracy. Both communism and fascism attain the same goal - giving government control of private property, whether through government control or abolishment.
It's nuanced, for sure. But either way - through communism or fascism - individuals have no property rights.
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It sounds sort of left-wing to me.
To an American it sounds "left wing." The European left was at one point very anti-state and anarchistic.
There are left and right wing statists, left and right wing anarchists.
You really need to go beyond Jonah Goldberg's sound bites and learn some history.
The very definitions of "Left" and "Right" go back to the French Revolution, when the radical anti-monarchists with their mantra of liberte, egalite, fraternite sat on the Left aisles of the National Assembly while the conservative monarchists sat in the Right aisles. From then on, "Left" and "Right" were not defined in terms of the size of government, but by whether the political movements worked to overthrow the traditional hierarchy of the aristocracy, the Church, and the landowner classes vs. upholding them in some form. By this and any reasonable historical definition, fascists were reactionary right-wing movements while Communists and Socialists were radical left-wing movements.
The first thing Bolsheviks and other Communists did when they came to power is line up aristocrats, military officers, and clergymen in front of firing squads. In contrast, fascists presented themselves as defenders of the aristocracy, the Churches, the military officers, as well as the bankers and industrialists.
If, as you and Goldberg argue, Communism and Fascism are "the same," perhaps you could explain why it is that when Fascists came to power, the first thing they did was crack down on labor unions and restore property to landowners and noblemen, while the first thing Communists did was to seize the property of aristocrats and landowners and give them to "worker's communes."
Now, as to the counterargument that Fascism and Communism are both anti-individualistic and authoritarian, the response is that this has nothing to do with Left or Right-wing ideology. The military in general and the Marine Corps in particular are profoundly anti-individualistic. Does that make the USMC a "Left Wing" institution? Theocratic governments and absolute monarchies from the 17th and 18th centuries were authoritarian, but I've yet to hear Louis XIV or Frederick the Great called "left-wing radicals." I doubt they'd have much in common with Karl Marx.
There are left and right wing statists, left and right wing anarchists.
That's right. Anarchism was historically considered a Left Wing movement, because it sought to overthrow the aristocracy, the clergy, and the landowners/industrialists. Nobody of sound mind considered Mikhail Bakunin a reactionary or a conservative because he was anti-government, because he and other radicals saw the government of their times as tools of the hated upper classes. Come to think of it, didn't Marx and Engels write that the state would "wither away" once independent worker's communes were established? Does this make them "conservatives"?
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Hi, thank you very much Túrelio. We're very sorry that we have make you so much trouble with our incompetence. Unfortunately, we can't delete this files by ourselves and we hope for your assistance. Best wishes, Elena and Olga
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Yes, we bought it on ebay... And we thought, that if the picture was in a mag which was on sale everywhere, it wouldn't a crime to upload it here, because it "common", sorry...
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Thank you very much for an advice, we'll try and will be careful! All the best, Elena and Olga


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We are going to Italy early next May and are choosing our itinerary now. It is my first time. What do you suggest? We fly into Rome, then thought we would go to Florence, and up to Venice. Then to Lake Como or Lake Garda then up into the Alps somewhere. Also want to go to the coast somewhere. Wanted to go to Southern Italy, like Sicily, but that may be too much. What coast-line areas do you love? There is SO MUCH TO SEE! (By the way we love art, culture and nature. Don't drink wine or like shopping, so will skip Milan.) WHAT DO YOU LOVE IN ITALY?
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In two and a half weeks you can't do all you mention. However,since you asked... I love Lake Como, Florence,Tuscan countryside, Venice, the Dolomites. You should see Rome too.
You could go to the Cinque Terre before or after Florence or stay in Santa Margherita Ligure a little north of the CT.
You need to eliminate and focus on fewer destinations or it will be a blur. I stay in a place a minimum of three to four nights.
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In May, I love the countryside. Everything is green and blooming. Daylight hours are long, there are not a lot of people, and the weather is usually beautiful. I like the Tuscan countryside south of Siena, Umbria, and Lake Como.
I love Venice in the Winter when there are less people.
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There is very little in Italy that I don't love. After 8 trips, we have learned that we will love our itinerary no matter what. We've visited the Genoa, the Ligurian Coast, including Cinque Terre, Milan, the Lakes, the Dolomites, Venice, Verona Bologna, Florence, the Tuscan Countryside, Umbria, Rome, Naples, the Amalfi Coast, Capri and Sicily. I loved them all but it took 8 trips to see all of that.
One thing you have to guard against is trying to see it all in one 2.5 week trip. May is a wonderful time for Italy. Do a little research and decide what to do on this trip.
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"We fly into Rome..." Have you booked your flights yet? If so, you are already slightly limited in what's comfortably possible in 2.5 weeks. If flights are booked, let us know your "bookends" for this trip.
"We love art, culture and nature... don't like shopping, so will skip Milan." Not so fast! There is a lot of art and Italian culture in Milan. The Last Supper, La Scala, several art museums, the largest cathedral in Italy, and great food... Milan may not fit well into your itinerary for this trip, but don't write it off just yet. If you decide to go to Lake Como by train, it's likely you'll be taking a connecting train in Milan.
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Here is a start--plan 3 trips now since you will return:
BOB the NAVIGATOR'S FAVORITE ITALY ITINERARIES
After 24 trips to southern Europe, and having developed more than 220 customized TRIP PLANS for others, I am now older and hopefully wiser. Here is an updated version of my favorite itineraries & my "Bella Italia" photo gallery. I hope you enjoy.
1. BELLA ITALIA: Five destinations in 15 days—car & train travel
* Arrive in Milan[MXP] & depart from Venice[VCE]or vice versa.
* Itinerary to include the Italian Lakes, Ligurian coast, rural
Tuscany, Florence, & Venice. Suggested timing is 3-2-4-2-4.
* Option: Drop the coast & rent a villa in Tuscany[ 3-7-2-3].
* Best time to go: May & June or Sept. & Oct.
2. LA DOLCE VITA: Three destinations in 12 to 14 days-car & train
* Arrival & departure from Rome[ FCO] or arrival in Naples
* Itinerary to include Rome, the Amalfi coast, and Tuscany
* Best time to go: Easter to end of October
* Option: Fly into Naples & stay at 2 locations on the coast
3. CLASSIC ITALIA: Three destinations in 12 to 14 days-car & train
* Arrival & departure from Rome—may start trip in Florence
* Destinations to include Florence, Rome & Tuscany/Umbria
* Best time to go: Anytime, but May & Oct. are my favorites
* Option: Consider a weekly rental in Tuscany/Umbria
4. SICILIAN CHARMS: Five destinations in 15 days—car travel
* Connections to Catania & Palermo via Rome or gateway city.
* Itinerary to include Taormina, Siracusa, Palermo & more.
* Best time to go: March to November—May is best for flowers
* See: http://www.slowtrav.com/tr/tripreport.asp?tripid=634
5. THE VILLAGE SAMPLER: My favorite venues for those who enjoy natural beauty and quaint, small villages. Arranged north to south.
* Arrive Milan & depart Rome—car travel-- 3 nites per location
* Itinerary to include Lago Orta, Castelrotto/ Ortisei[Dolomites],
Portovenere[Liguria], Montalcino[Tuscany], & Spello[Umbria].
* Best time to go: May to October for the lakes and Dolomites
* Option: Pick 3 out of 5 and stay longer in Tuscany/Umbria.
NOTE: These are only intended to be SAMPLE ITINERAIRES.
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We have been to Italy multiple times and will go again in the spring of 2013. Your itinerary, while aggressive, is doable, but I would highly recommend listening to bobthenavgator. I have listened to his advice many times, and he really knows his stuff.
One thing you need to consider is that every time you change cities, you essentially lose a day. IE, you take a mid-morning train, and by the time you get to your next destination city, find the hotel, check in (if the room is ready) you are ready for a drink and early dinner. So that # of destinations will make for a more rigorous trip than you might think.
Another couple of suggestions; in the fall of 2010, we met friends in Bellagio (Lake Como) and spent 4 nights there, then went to Stressa and spent three nights there. Then we went to Florence for a week. If you used that itinerary and added Rome for a few mights, that might work as well.
Again, if your air reservations are set, then you could do Rome, Florence and Lake Come and then back track to Rome for the return flight. It would be better if you did Rome/Florence/Come and returned from Milan.
But know this: Italy is such a magnificent place that you simply cannot go wrong -- unless you try to pack too many places into a short # of days. Last piece of advice: few people make "only one trip" to Italy. They go, fall in love with the place and return again and again!
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I want to thank bobthenavigator and all of you who so generously replied to my questions about Italy. Clearly we need to decide what we want to see most this first trip to Italy and keep it reasonable so we can enjoy what we do see and experience. I understand that we will go back and back again if we fall in love with Italy the way you all have, and I AM SURE WE WILL!
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The moderating influence of mother-adolescent discussion on early and middle African-American adolescent sexual behavior†
Version of Record online: 22 MAR 2007
DOI: 10.1002/nur.20193
Copyright © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Research in Nursing & Health
Volume 30, Issue 2, pages 193–202, April 2007
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DiIorio, C., McCarty, F., Denzmore, P. and Landis, A. (2007), The moderating influence of mother-adolescent discussion on early and middle African-American adolescent sexual behavior. Res. Nurs. Health, 30: 193–202. doi: 10.1002/nur.20193
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We wish to thank the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta for their support of the project and to the participants for their contributions to HIV prevention.
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We examined how African-American mothers' discussions with their adolescents about sex moderated the relationship between adolescents' sex-based discussions with their friends and adolescents' involvement in sexual behaviors. The 425 African-American adolescents were 12 through 15 years of age and had participated in an HIV prevention research project with their mothers. Linear and logistic regression analyses showed that, for girls, age, discussions with friends, and the interaction between mother and friend's sex-based discussions were statistically significant predictors of sexual behaviors. These findings suggest that the level of discussion with mothers had a moderating effect on the relationship between friends' discussions about sex and a girl's involvement in sexual behaviors. Although these results were not apparent for boys, there was a strong relationship between discussions with friends about sex and sexual behaviors among boys. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Res Nurs Health 30: 193–202, 2007


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My favorite sister is Camille because I identify most with her, but after this second arc in her Otherworld series, I'm really starting to love Menolly a lot more too, and this book was just perfect.
Menolly finds the diary of a previous fae bartender which makes her wonder what happened to her, she finds out she disappeared, at the same time, there is a new demonic threat that's attacking the fae and attacks her sister. With the help of her sisters and a lot of great male characters, they find out what's going on and kick butt.
So, this description sounds like it could be another popular series? No. The men are not arm and eye candy, they are strong in their own right, and Menolly is not sleeping her way through them. The whole series handles relationships in a matter of fact way instead of trying to titillate and shock you with them. It's part of what I love about it so much, it's more mature then that. The focus is on the story and how the relationships affect the characters and the story.
Start with the beginning and read through to the end. This series clued me into her books and she's a solid mystery writer. Clues and information to find things out instead of stumbling into answers accidentally and her skill at weaving the stories make them very enjoyable.
There are 2 plots that weave together nicely, one involving a missing Fae & vampire & the other a secret society of young men who have been summoning demons. Of course, the sisters work nonstop to make right the havoc that the society has caused, & Iris, Maggie, & the sister's lovers & friends are all in the mix. I really have grown to love this motley crew, & I hope there are many more books to come in this series.
However, while Menolly considers what to do, a new radically different demonic assault begins to absorb the life force out of the fae. There appears no counterattack to prevent this threat from succeeding and evidence mounts that a quisling human group is abetting the demon Lord Shadow Wing.
The latest Otherworld urban romantic fantasy is a super entry as Menolly leads the charge this time. Once again there is a ton of support players allies and villains that make the well written numerous subplots even more complex. Fans will enjoy the latest D'Atigo sister's take on their adventures as this time the trio tries solve the mystery of the bartending elf while also attempting to keep two worlds safe from the demon horde.
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I would have liked more intrigue and mystery in this one. I think Dante's Hellions could have been a much stronger plot part and enemy. I expect there will be at least 3 more books before this series ends and I hope Yasmin returns to the much tighter and sharper writing of the first 5. Still, I like Menolly and she's become a more intriguing character than when we met her in the first 2 books.
Menolly has inherited an inn and found a mysterious diary which leads them to learn of the mysterious disspearance of a previous occupant of the room. So....despite the fact that they have a 2000 year old squid demon attacking Fae in the local fairy disco, and attacking their sister Delilah psycically on the astral plane and killing her slowly, they sill squeeze in the time to try to solve this mysterious strangers mysterious dissapearance. That is just two of the plot lines. Trust me, there are about five others and none of them are very engaging or exciting, more just props so the author can work out her multi-lover fantasy's.
Galennorn has created her own forumla, I'll give her that. A crisis comes up you don't care about, the women grab which ever of their harem of nongender specific lovers or polyamorous husbands to help them solve the problem, afterwhich they all gather at the house and discuss the near misses and how to solve the problems. One of the three sister's takes charge, tells all the men what they should do,all these supposed alpha males agree to what ever they are told to do, everyone rushes out to it, then they go somewhere solve a little part of one of the mysteries squeezing in the sleuthing between attackes, another unrelated problem arises, they all rush out and kick ass and then go back to the house, sit around the table and drink tea, and then rush out to handle another crisis. Sharing supposedly cute sexual barbs with eachother's pantheon of lovers rushing to and from the crisises is pretty much the sum of the sexual tension.
For women with such diverse love lifes, there isn't a lot of sex going on. Camille has THREE husbands, one of whom is a supposedly insanely jealous dragon who beats up men who make passes at his wife but doesn't seem to have a problem with her being married to two other men at the same time. Menolly has a girlfriend who is supposed to be such an important loving part of her life, who shows up for some five second lesbian nookie in the very beginning of the book and then explains she can't really see Menolly much for awhile due to politics because she is so busy, but how about if they agree to be monogamous as far as not sleeping with other women. Evidently having sex with guys isnt' cheating. The Main Character doesn't seem hurt sad or dissapointed that her lover is basically cutting her out of her life for awhile due to politics despite the fact that when a man friend showed up an hour before and did this exact thing she almost took out his throat. Nerisse the girlfriend moves convienantly aside so in the midst of the latest manufactured crisis Menolly will have room to guilt free start feeling incredibly attracted to one of the demons who has been helping them out. A man who has signed some convenant that forces him (although he is choosing this) to be subjucated by the women. I'm not making this up, the author did. It is bordering on LKH without the arduer, although the sex is about as exciting.
There isn't a lot of time to really build the supposed sexual tension with the demons (and yes there are two) At one point, she and one of her potential new lovers almost have sex on her brother-in-law the dragon's back while he flys them to yet another dangerous situation. While I appreciated the time management skills The MC and her demonish boytoy displayed, I threw up a little in my mouth.
Galenorn has spread the love interests and the plots so far and wide, you reach the point of not ever emotionally connecting or investing in ANY of the relationships, be they between the three sisters, Camille the plump bossy velvet covered witch with the three husbands, Menolly the bisexual kick ass albino vampire, or Delilah who I can't even figure out what her deal is except she turns into....a kitten. Needless to say, she doesn't seem to be a lot of help, maybe that is why the other two sisters are always having to boss everybody around.
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8/4/2014 (1 year ago)
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Catholic nuns and priests have collaborated to save as many as 200 female workers being held as slave laborers in an Indian fish factory. The rescue took courage and coordination and police say that have filed charges against those responsible.
Children are common victims of trafficking, often employed as slave labor in factory operations.
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8/4/2014 (1 year ago)
Published in Asia Pacific
Keywords: India, Mumbai, rescue, human trafficking
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Indian news media are reporting the arrest of four managers of a fish processing plant in Mumbai, India. The managers were charged with trafficking after police discovered they had enslaved 200 women, including 97 girls under the age of 14.
What is remarkable about the rescue operation is that it was led by a group of nuns and priests who discovered the operation following a tip from a member of the public.
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According to reports, Bethany Sister, Violet working in a Mumbai suburb, was told by another sister, Holy Spirit Sister Julie of Streevani, that nine girls were being worked against their will at a local fish processing factory and that they were not receiving their wages. Sister Julie, who works to emancipate others, teamed with Sister Violet to get help for the victims.
The community Sister Violet belongs to contacted several private agencies to see if they could help and they finally found help from a Fransalian priest who had the cell phone number for one of the women working in the factory. Another Jesuit priest, James Mascaarenhas, actually managed to get the women inside the factory in touch with a local aid organization, but he was unsatisfied with the likelihood that the organization would be able to save the women.
Worried that local organizations would not save the women, the priest and nuns then visited the factory in disguise, but they were kept out by security. They also avoided going to the police because the police would simply notify the management and the victims would not be saved.
Rescuing the women and girls would not be easy, especially since they were transported to various places each night to sleep, then brought back to the factory in the morning. There was no easy way to rescue all the victims at once.
Eventually, intervention came from an aid organization previously contacted. The Indian Rescue Mission had worked quietly to find sympathetic authorities that would take action. The authorities planned and executed a careful raid on the facility, arresting four managers and freeing 200 women, many of who were minors.
Several of the women were paid what was due to them while children were sent to homes where their welfare would be looked after. Police filed charges against the managers.
The success of the raid would not have been possible without the persistence of the sisters and priests and their prayers and actions. Certainly, the authorities alone were insufficient. It is another example of the unique approach, which combines both 'Prayer and Action' to achieve success where before none seemed possible.
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Sony eReader
With the backing of a company like Sony, their Reader has probably the highest profile of the devices available to UK users, helped of course with a partnership with Waterstones, making it available in store and online. The Sony Reader has a 6-inch E Ink display, so benefits from a battery life of about 6800 page turns. Easy controls make for comfortable page turning whilst reading and text can be resized at the push of a button. It also supports multiple formats, including images and MP3, and if you buy an ebook from the Waterstones website synchronisation is really easy.
100 Classic Book Collection - Nintendo DS
When you're not playing games on your DS, or improving your mind, you can turn your DS into a book. As you might have guessed from the title, you get 100 books on a DS cartridge. Choosing a book is easy and they include classics from Dickens, Shakespeare, the Bronte sisters, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hardy, Wilkie Collins, and Lewis Carroll. Of course there are some notable omissions, like Frankenstein, War and Peace, Lord of the Rings, and books from C. S. Lewis, but who are we to be greedy? Holding the DS vertically, pages are displayed both sides with a swipe of the stylus (or your finger) left to right to turn the page. The problem with this offering is that the screens (although two of them) are just too small to get a sense of where you are going in a book.
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Firms claim Nextera requires just 15 minutes hands-on time to prepare sequencer-ready libraries. [© kentoh - Fotolia.com]
Illumina has acquired Epicentre Biotechnologies, a provider of nucleic acid sample preparation reagents and enzymes used in sequencing and microarrays. The acquisition means Illumina can now directly exploit Epicentre's Nextera™ technology for preparing next-generation sequencing libraries. Illumina says its existing sequencing customers have been fast to adopt the Nextera sequencing sample preparation kits, which require 10-10,000 times less DNA than other technologies and enable users to prepare sequencer-ready libraries from genomic DNA with less than 15 minutes of hads-on time, according to the companies.
"As next-generation sequencing continues to improve in throughput and cost, there's a critical need for sample prep to evolve as well, to lower costs, handle higher sample volumes, and reduce both hands-on time and overall processing time," notes Jay Flatley, Illumina president and CEO. "Epicentre's Nextera technology provides a step-change improvement in library prep that will translate into greater ease of use, lower costs, and faster turnaround times for sequencing applications."
The firm says the addition of Epicentre's enzyme engineering and sample preparation reagent development expertise to Ilumina's own products and services will generate a combined entity capable of offering an end-to-end solution for next-generation sequencing as well as microarray and real time PCR applications.
The Nextera technology uses in vitro transposition to prepare sequencer-ready libraries from genomic DNA for multiple sequencing platforms. The technology simultaneously fragments and tags DNA in a single-tube reaction, Epicentre claims. In a modified verison of the classic transposition reaction, the technology uses free transposon ends and a transposase to form a Transposome™ complex. When this complex is incubated with target double-stranded DNA, the target is fragmented and the transferred strand of the transposon end oligonucleotide is covalently attached to the 5´ end of the target fragment.
Nextera can be used to generate di-tagged libraries, with optional barcoding, which are compatible with Roche/454 or Illumina/Solexa® platforms, Epicentre notes. To generate platform-specific libraries, either free transposon ends or appended transposon ends can be used. Platform-specific tags (and optional bar coding) are introduced by 10 cycles of PCR. The sequencing adaptors enable amplification by emulsion PCR, bridge PCR, and other methods, and the amplified library can be subsequently sequenced using the appropriate primers.
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