Reply #15: Nope.

[Jed Dilligan]

You need a modern industrialized state and a modern civil society and a modern market economy. Without all that you reduce "fascism" to a term meaning "repressive government."

Purging the language of the doublespeak "Islamo-fascist" is not a matter of trying not to offend terrorists or Islamists. It's a matter of snapping this snoozy country out of its knee-jerk nostalgia for events of the 1940s. We are not saving Private Ryan in Iraq and Afghanistan. We're building an empire, just like all those historical peoples (like the Teutons) who would qualify as "fascist" under your definition.