Avoid the Passive Voice

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 6 09:26:17 PDT 1998


Brad De Long wrote:


>You can call this political complexion whatever you want. You can even
>ignore that it exists. But it *is* a kissing cousin to Action Francaise,
>Benito Mussolini, Francisco Franco, and the National Socialist German
>Workers' Party. It isn't full-blown fascism. But it is proto- or
>pseudo-fascism.

Brad, this is demented, and I'm stunned you're saying these things. Noam Chomsky is an anarchist, which makes him about as far from a fascist as you can get. In fact, he's too anti-statist for me - but, that aside, I can't think of a more principled, more rigorous, more dedicated, and more admirable political writer in the U.S. today (and one who's extraordinarily generous with his time). It's just desperate or surreal to call him a Buchananite or a crypto- or proto-Nazi.

Doug



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