I would not actually blast the Panthers in general. There were specific individual members of the movement that I didn’t admire and I did oppose some of their goals, but I thought they arose in response to specific pressures on their society and I thought many of their objectives and many of their achievements were laudable.
I suspect that we are just going to agree to disagree about the fascism issue. If we created a list of all their attributes and all the attributes we could define as fascist, I would probably wind up matching enough of the entries in each column to make identify them as fascist and you would not. The term is very neutral for me (much like pointing out that the Acts of the Apostles describes early Christianity as communist). Since I doubt that we are going to reach any agreement and I have no mission to promulgate my viewpoint, I’ll probably just drop out, here.
Tom~