chris niles
>Messsage du 02/12/2000 07:58
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>Objet : Resistance is a Hydra
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> On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Christopher B. Hajib-Niles wrote:
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> > but i digress: hitler was not a "rascist" and fascism is not "racism".
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> (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
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