摘要：Opposing government interference in the economy and society is hardly support for ‘fascism'. An attack on the Institute of Public Affairs in the latest edition of Overland by Shane Cahill shows just how far the socialist literary magazine has strayed off the ranch.
Just the title of the piece - ‘This Fascist Mob' - indicates Overland's relaxed approach to scholarship. ‘Fascist' is a word with a very specific meaning. But its use in this case is drawn from an anonymous critic complaining about that the IPA's opposition to the Curtin government's heavy-handed approach to regulation during the war meant that the IPA was probably a Japanese sympathiser.
