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Entry: A New Humanism in Europe Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_new_humanism_in_europe#6232 Post contents: Once again...and again...I repeat what I have said (and I think amply demonstrated) in past messages: Dollfuss's Austrian solution and Mussolini's Fascism are two different birds; Mr. Cundiff wants to continue to group Dollfuss as a "fascist," and frankly, he continues to either misunderstand what I've painstakingly stated, or else he just doesn't understand that there are fundamental differences. I let the reader decide. The literature is ample on the topic, and we can continue to discuss it ad infinitum, but the basic factual content is there for anyone interested to see. I am quite ready to stay on this topic until the point is taken....Now, I can recommend at least three fairly detailed biographies of Dollfuss, and a couple of studies of the Austrian solution attempted in the 1930s, if anyone is interested. In this instance, Mr. Cundiff has constructed a straw man called Fascism, and since he does not apparently sympathise with Dolfuss or other Catholic traditionalists, he wants to place them in that category. But it doesn't work, and not only that, he refuses to acknowledge even that Engelbert Dollfuss died an heroic death, killed by Nazis. Finally, I was not constructing a syllogism (I do know how to do that, thanks so much); rather, I was copying Mr. Cundiff's very own line of logic: that Mussolini was a fascist, and that since, he stated, Dollfuss copied Mussolini's economics, ergo... Go back and read the post; I have used the same format that Mr. Cundiff used, only substituted the name of the sovereign pontiff (the same one who issued Mit Brennender Sorge). Lastly, concerning Michael Novak and the AEI: I didn't find anything of his quoted in the essay to be either original or profound. His shilling for democratic capitalism I find puerile and uninformed; and despite my admiration for Thomas Woods when it comes to defending the South and his defense of the traditional liturgy, his rather strained defense of democratic capitalism rings hollow, as recent critiques in such journals as Culture Wars make clear. Sent at: 2008 11 22