<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8777964e-2b00-4559-9e93-a491deb888f7/DF8434C2-3AB9-435D-BC54-85D67C7A4950/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/more_on_dawkins/#17281" href="http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/more_on_dawkins/#17281" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thevalve.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thevalve.org/go/valve/article/more_on_dawkins/#17281"><P> Dawkins repeatedly compares the best of non-Fascism to the worst of Fascism.  He (again repeatedly) accuses Fascism of being an ‘extremism’.  There have been some Fascists who were extremists, of course; but this doesn’t mean that Fascism <I>itself</I> is extremist.  I certainly did not recognise myself, or any of my local Party organisation, in Dawkins’s bitter, hate-filled portrayal.  Worse, he does not seem to realise that his own position, so-called non-Fascism, is actually <I>a kind of Fascism</I>: a structure of belief <I>determined by</I> Fascism, dependent for many of its core ideas on Fascist traditions. </p> <P> … Take for example this biased observation:  “Fascism seeks to impose total state control over all aspects of life, from the political and cultural right down to questions of individual ethical and sexual choice.  It valorises strength, and exalts the nation state as superior to the individuals composing it.” Not even the junior Nazi Party secretary who first introduced me to Fascism believed <I>that</I>!</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DF8434C2-3AB9-435D-BC54-85D67C7A4950/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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