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Entry: Right Face! Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/right_face#13299 Post contents: When it comes to the Iron Guard, the one thing glossed over is how *weird* they were. It would not have surprised me if in some of their ceremonies they had brought old Vlad Tepes back complete with black cape and bats. I mean, they were that far gone. Trying to tie that weirdness to old Benito seems unfair to poor Benny. I mean, he had his things, but the Iron Guads made Nazis look sensible by comparison. In any case, IMHO most studies of Fascism are flawed in that they do not look at Ireland, where you could find the Platonic ideal of the mixture of pure idealism and brutal thuggery. It is curious how Stanley Payne, for example, lists what he calls characteristcs of Fascism and then when he goes to Ireland, he just writes one paragraph on the hapless Blueshirts (the most clueless fascists in Europe, as they were the least nationalist group against the IRA and the Fianna Fail), and does not see how all his characteristics fit Fianna Fail to a T (of course, he may be deceieved by the fact that de Valera managed to turn a bunch of potential nasty fascists into well behaved democratic politicians). It is my belief that if you crossed Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Falange, with Norman Bates (of "Psycho" fame), you might end up with Sean McBride. Sent at: 2008 11 23