>>38
First off I'm not the other guy, I'm
>>37.
Sorry but the first 2 sentences seem contradictory.
Aren't fascism and communism ideologies?
Isn't a country's political and economic history part of it's past?
A country's economic history generally does have a significant effect on their political condition but I suppose I can accept the quantum chaotic random element that is unaffected by a person's material desires. France had a level of industrial development similiar to that of Italy and Germany leading up to the 1st world war but it was not predisposed towards fascism because it was a nation state with a liberal-revolutionary history long before Italy and Germany were unified and long before they had achieved levels of wealth that were present when fascists came to power in those countries. As a result the majority of the population had been indoctrinated to support democracy and oppose authoritarianism, even though there were strong fascist movements in France they were only popular among non-conformists.