[lit-ideas] Leftists marching to preserve Fascism

Norman Podhoretz quotes Nick Cohen on page 97 of World War IV, the Long 
Struggle Against Islamofascism.

"On 15 February 2003, about a million liberal-minded people marched through 
London to oppose the overthrow of a fascist regime.  It was the biggest protest 
in British history, but it was dwarfed by the march to oppose the overthrow of 
a fascist regime in Mussolini's old capital of Rome, where about three million 
Italians joined what the Guinness Book of Records said was the largest anti-war 
rally ever.  In Madrid, about 650,000 marched to oppose the overthrow of a 
fascist regime in the biggest demonstration in Spain since the death of General 
Franco in 1975.  In Berlin, the call to oppose the overthrow of a fascist 
regime brought demonstrators from 300 German towns and cities, some of them old 
enough to remember when Adolf Hitler ruled from the Reich Chancellery.  In 
Greece, where the previous generation had overthrown a military junta, the 
police had to fire tear gas at leftists who were so angry at the prospect of a 
fascist regime being overthrown that they armed themselves with petrol bombs."

"No one knows how many people demonstrated.  The BBC estimated between 6 and 10 
million, and anti-war activists tripled that, but no one doubted that these 
were history's largest coordinated demonstrations and that millions, maybe tens 
of millions, had marched to keep a fascist regime in power."

This should be enough to warm the cockles of the anti-war, anti-American 
Lit-Ideas-Leftists' hearts -- who marched in spirit in their words here on 
Lit-Ideas -- unapologetically.

Lawrence

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