Dan Lazare wrote:
>
>I still don't see how you can have fascism within the context of a
bourgeois-
>liberal republic.
Well, I am being a little creative with the concept, but did Black people have the full panoply of bourgeois democratic rights, civil liberties ? Did they have the full protection of the Bill of Rights ? When a huge fraction of the population are systematically denied these do you just say, oh , but this is a liberal republic, so , this is not fascism ?
Was South Africa with apartheid a liberal republic because it had a constitution and elections ? or was it a mixed republic and anti-republic ?
Before I had said:
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> I agree that the U.S. is not fascist now. But Jim Crow was fascism for
> Black people, in all the essentials. It was pre-Italian fascism, but
> part of the rise of imperialism in the U.S., so it had the essential
> class characteristic and was open terrorist rule. It is important to
say
> this to debunk the American myth of the ultimately democratic U.S.,
> never fascist and all that.
>
> Charles Brown
>
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