Comments on: Anti-Fascism: Tactics and Principles http://thethirdestate.net/2009/08/anti-fascism-tactics-and-principles/ What Is The Third Estate? Everything. What Has It Been Until Now In The Political Order? Nothing. What Does It Want To Be? Something. Tue, 22 May 2012 04:47:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Peter Inness http://thethirdestate.net/2009/08/anti-fascism-tactics-and-principles/comment-page-1/#comment-4882 Peter Inness Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:54:34 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/2009/08/anti-fascism-tactics-and-principles/#comment-4882 Re the word fascist, George Orwell said the word fascist was meaningless. Prof. Timothy Garton Ash said in an article in The Guardian recently that the word has been “hollowed out to mean little more than something the left hates at the moment”. Are you using the word in the Orwell sense, i.e. “totally meaningless”, or in the Garton Ash sense: almost meaningless? Or perhaps you are using the word as per Chambers Dictonary. This defines fascism as being composed of different characteristics including militarism. Now Labour plus Tories took the British military to Iraq which resulted in the death of a million Muslims and Kurds. Whereas the BNP always opposed the invasion. Well it’s clear who the fascists are, or is it? Re the word fascist, George Orwell said the word fascist was meaningless. Prof. Timothy Garton Ash said in an article in The Guardian recently that the word has been “hollowed out to mean little more than something the left hates at the moment”.

Are you using the word in the Orwell sense, i.e. “totally meaningless”, or in the Garton Ash sense: almost meaningless?

Or perhaps you are using the word as per Chambers Dictonary. This defines fascism as being composed of different characteristics including militarism. Now Labour plus Tories took the British military to Iraq which resulted in the death of a million Muslims and Kurds. Whereas the BNP always opposed the invasion. Well it’s clear who the fascists are, or is it?

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