Thanks for putting the names under the pictures. I thought Franco looked like Pinoche, and I couldn’t identify Peron at all from just looking.

I have to admit, that picture of Peron really reminds me of the cliche of the white uniformed “tin pot little dictator” or, as was so well put in the bad Bond film _License to Kill_, “You’re only President…for life.”

Hitler was centered and put somewhat higher than the others… I must say however what bothers me always a little about definitions of fascism (which has an italian root originally), is that the NAZI regime, while definitely fighting communism, meant “National Socialism”. There’s some idea of welfare here. Even today, when you hear Muentefering, president of the German socialist party blame “a few evil-doing greedy manager in the industry” as being responsible for high unemployment, you’d think it must have been similar at times, to what Hitler declared about “the Jewish enemy within our borders”.

I’m not aware that Franco, despite his alliance with the Falangists, was an economic fascist, at least not any more than has been typical of right-wing military dictators. It seems somewhat incongruous to lump him in with Mussolini, Hitler, Peron, or — given what changes were rapidly thrust on America by its president — Roosevelt.

Artisan, Hitler fought against communists, and communism the party label, not collectivism. His efforts were substantially collectivist, thus his using “socialist” is perfectly reasonable.

“Communists”, just like “Jews”, were labels for scapegoats.

An “anarchist” today has to overcome the “bomb throwing” image. It’s just convenient labels.