> but i digress: hitler was not a "rascist" and fascism is not "racism".
(Yawn). These are word-games. Part of the Fascist agenda was racism; another was sexism; still another was military Keynesianism; yet another was colonial accumulation, a.k.a. military imperialism. All of them have to fuse to touch off the fission-reaction of Fascism, and even then, different constellations can result in quite different situations (thus the span from Italian Fascism to the Japanese version). Ideology in the age of monopoly capital (roughly 1850-1950) is monopolistic, i.e. it administers a *range* of identity-politics, each as complex as the division of labor in the society at hand. Which means (1) the Resistance has to fight numerous local battles against each form of oppression -- sex, race, gender, etc., and (2) class is actually a very complex thing, a composite of an enormous number of other mediations. Abolishing whiteness would be terrific, but it can't happen unless we also abolish maleness, Wall Street rentier-edness, hetero-ness, First Worldness and all such related horrors. Each struggle needs all the other struggles, and the defeat of even one struggle is a defeat for all the others.
-- Dennis