`Facist' isn't a word, either

From: Damien Broderick (damienb@unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 22:47:43 MDT

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    > Mussolini was a communist. When he split he relabeled himself a
    >Facist because of ancient connotations of that word. Hitler ... was never
    a Facist

    Neither was Mussolini, who was a fascist. Yes, this is a quibble, but it's
    not *that* hard to spell it properly, and the ancient connotations were
    with `fasces', rods bundled tightly together.

    Damien Broderick

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