http://users.livejournal.com/-wanderer-/ ([identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/-wanderer-/) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2011-03-06 01:59 am (UTC)

The main reason I don't think you can count the Confederacy as a fascist state is for the very reason you mention: it wasn't a party state, and the state didn't intervene in all aspects of civil society in the way that happened in Germany or Japan (or the Soviet Union).

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