Like most children from the baby-boom generation, I grew up in the shadow of fascism. The atomic bombs that threatened to end the world had been developed to defeat the fascist National Socialist (Nazi) Party in Germany. Communism was the new fascism; the United States had to invade Vietnam because otherwise it would be like not standing up to Hitler before World War II. Then I heard critics call Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon fascists. What did it mean to call elected Presidents fascist? I studied fascism, along with other topics, as a political science major in college. I have continued to study and analyze fascism ever since.

I am defining fascism pragmatically as the type of government (and economy and social relationships) characterized by the acknowledged big 3 fascist states: Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany, Benito Mussolini's fascist Italy, and General Francisco Franco's Spain.

I intend to write more, but here is what you can read so far:

General Francisco Franco main page
Vatican Names Fascist Saints [October 30, 2007]
Catholic Church Helped with Dirty War in Argentina [September 18, 2007]
Mother Teresa, Hitler and Stalin [August 26, 2007]
Italy, Catholicism, and Fascism Today [June 3, 2007]
Mussolini's Corporate State
Francisco Franco, the Catholic Church and 2 Million Murders
Catholicism and Fascism