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Entry: Right Face! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/right_face#13167 Post contents: This was an illuminating post for me who have not ventured into these sections of the noosphere, and I thank Mr. Purcell for it. However,while it could be debated whether they are "conservative", it should be made clear that Coomaraswasmy, Guenon, Schuon, and Nasr are in no sense Fascists when that elastic term in which Mr. Cundiff takes so much reactive delight, is limited to its proper meaning. Thomas Fleming, commenting on a recent post at Chronicles, did a good job of defining this term: "If we can accomplish anything with our discussions, one first order of business should be to recover the use of our language, and that includes the meaning of words like “fascist.” Strictly speaking, fascist refers to the national-socialist (but not racist or anti-Semitic) policies advocated by the architects and ideologues of the Fascist Party in Italy, but there were other fascist or quasi-fascist movements at the time. To make a long story short, fascists join nationalists in exalting the nation and national unity, and, while they sometimes tip their hate politely in the direction of the Church as the repository of tradition, they are opposed to any social role for the Church. They are equally suspicious of monarchy, though they may support a king who is the symbol of national unity, and, although fascisim tends to be a petty bourgeois movement, it has included members of the aristocracy and in Italy at least many Jews. Fascists believe very much in economic and social planning, and although their language sometimes sounds corporatist in the old sense, they have more in common with Swedish socialism." (http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=439#more-439) Sent at: 2008 11 23