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Entry: A New Humanism in Europe Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_new_humanism_in_europe#6229 Post contents: Antonio Salazar's Portugal, Tiso's Slovakia, and Petain's Vichy were more prosperous, lived better in peace with their neighbors, better overcame old antagonisms with neighbors, defended better personal rights and freedom, and enable their citizens to overcome their dark pasts with a new ideological stability than Roepke's, Erhart's and Adenhauer's (all Christian Democrats) Germany? Now that's a pipedream. </i>Would Mr. Cundiff suggest that this pontiff, whom he praises for Mit Brennender Sorge, was also a “fascist” because, to phrase it as Mr.Cundiff did earlier: Mussolini and Dollfuss had the same economics; but Pius XI praised Dollfuss’s ideas; therefore, voila!, Pius XI, must be...a FASCIST!</i> Fighting Joe needs a course on how to construct a syllogism. Dollfuß was against Naziism and racialism, not Fascism. I've told Joe where he can go read about Dollfuß. JOe's argument also has nothing to do with my argument, that a Christian Democracy purged of clerical fascism, including fascism's love of corporatism, is what we need, and what Roepke and other Christian Democrats provided. Did Joe read the Maiverfassung? Were he to do he would know that it is rather Fascist. So, no calumny, no apology, and get back to Breschi. By the way, the Mises institute had a fine series of lectures on Fascist economics a year or so ago, and the the audio media is available on their website. Dr. Woods in his book <i>The Church and the Market</i>, whatever its limitations, does a splendid job of demolishing Corporatism and Distributism from a libertarian perspective. It's not the only perspective. The Libertarians are doing the best thinking this side of the Atlantic, the Christian Democrats on the other. Sent at: 2008 11 22