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Entry: A New Humanism in Europe Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_new_humanism_in_europe#6213 Post contents: Mr. Capp, I'll grant that "Fascism" is a slippery creature. For lots of people for whom hatred is their principle pleasure in life, "fascism" just means anyone one who is of a different ideology than themselves. Others use it loosely for any coercive act. These are poor definitions. I follow the thought of Roger Griffin and John Lukacs. Wiki "Roger Griffin" and see his idea of Fascism as "palingenetic and populist form of ultranationalism". Then get a hold of his books. There are problems with his views. He doesn't distinguish between Naziism and Fascism. Lukac's does in his <i>Democracy and Populism</i> (2005). (Lukacs also, correctly, knows that Maurras was no fascist, just an extremist conservative. The Wiki on "clerical fascism" is a bit short, but somewhat useful on "Jozef Tiso". <i>no faithful Catholic can support any government programme on the idea that it will “do good”. </i> That a government will do good is the <i>only</i> reason a Catholic can support any government. I'll not get into the grace/nature debate. There is a sense in which anything good is grace because its creator is Utter Grace. No one seems to wish to talk about the main article. So I shall again in a later writeback. Folks, this article is one of the best that I've seen on Taki Top Drawer. And it has brought out an important observation by Paul Gottfried -- an observation that I'm not in full agreement with, but important all the same. I'm a member of the League of the South, The Catholic Church, and invest internationally. So along with the rest of y'all Real Conservatives -- Burkean or Blanc -- and Christian Democrats, I feel the tension between the centripetal pull of home, locality, history and the "small platoon"; and the centrifugal pull of both the world market, high and low tech, easy geo-communication,quick international travel, and the universalism of the Gospel. Sent at: 2008 11 22