Omar >, while > promoting a rather unusual view that fascism is a form > of authoritarianism that is autonomous from business > control. not at all unusual. (Nor is the notion of a more widespread relative autonomy of the capitalist state unusual though some have called writers who insist on it neo-Marxists.) The views in the article Adrian Palma sent you are widespread and have been for some decades (at least), and seem to me to stand even given such work as _Big Business and the Third Reich_. The works I want to cite are behind "walls" -- e.g. jstor's -- but look for Miliband/Poulantzas and also (locus classicus, though of course not for fascism) the Eighteenth Brumaire. Judy Evans, Cardiff ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html