----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Cartman <aff_cartman at hotmail.com> To: <right-left at savanne.ch> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2000 12:42 PM Subject: [right-left] My Enemy's Enemy
Clipped from the Anti-Fascist Info Bulletin #251
ANTI-FASCIST FORUM P.O. Box 6326, Station A Toronto, Ontario M5W 1P7 Canada E-mail: aff at burn.ucsd.edu Web: http://burn.ucsd.edu/~aff - Saturday, 20 May 2000 -
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MY ENEMY'S ENEMY: Essays on Globalization, Fascism and the Struggle against Capitalism ____________________________________________________________________
Anti-Fascist Forum has just published an 88-page booklet examining right-wing, racist, and demagogic tendencies within the movement against globalization. Entitled "My Enemy's Enemy: essays on globalization, fascism and the struggle against capitalism" this booklet brings together a number of English-language texts which have been available on the Internet for some time, but not in hardcopy form.
This booklet is available for $5 (Canadian) or $3 (US) from Anti-Fascist Forum. Please make checks or money orders out to "Anti-Fascist Forum" and send to:
AFF; POB 6326, Stn. A; Toronto, Ontario; M5W 1P7; Canada.
For details about wholesale pricing, or any other questions, please contact AFF at aff at burn.ucsd.edu.
What follows is a list of texts in this booklet, as well as the short introduction by Anti-Fascist Forum.
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MY ENEMY'S ENEMY: Essays on Globalization, Fascism and the Struggle against Capitalism
1. Aryan Politics & Fighting the WTO by J. Sakai 2. "Anti-Globalization": Buchanan, Fulani & Neo-fascist Drift in the US by Tom Burghardt, AFIB Editor 3. "Millenium Round" of the WTO under fire... from both left and right by Alain Kessi 4. De Fabel van de illegaal quits Dutch anti-MAI campaign by Eric Krebbers & Merijn Schoenmakerde 5. Campaign against the MAI potentially antisemitic by Eric Krebbers & Merijn Schoenmaker 6. Goldsmith and his Gaian hierarchy Eric Krebbers 7. Fabel self interview about quitting the campaign against "free trade" by Krebbers, Westerink & Schoenmaker 8. Beethoven versus McDonalds by Revolutionary Cells 9. Resisting Global Capitalism in India by Jaggi Singh
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Introduction by Anti-Fascist Forum
Why write an essay exposing troublesome characteristics of the struggle against globalization, when global capitalism is seemingly more firmly entrenched than ever? What can be gained from "rocking the boat", even if it is true that the campaign against the World Trade Organization may contain certain unsavory elements? Who poses the greatest threat, who should be enemy number one, a few local demagogues or the barons of international capital?
Far be it from us at Anti-Fascist Forum to argue against fighting the World Trade Organization and other planning bodies of international capital. But the reasons why people choose to struggle against the WTO, and the ideas underlying their fight, are vitally important to all of us who would like to see capitalism overthrown and class society come to an end.
The authors of these texts, most of which have already been published on the internet, have all observed reactionary tendencies within the struggle against global capitalism which go beyond the presence of a few individual crackpots. While the Left currently dominates on the streets and, to a lesser degree, in the popular imagination, this is not necessarily a permanent affair. Without learning the lessons of history and debunking the pseudo-progressivism of the liberal left, revolutionaries may find themselves increasingly marginalized in a movement that whitewashes blood-drenched "local capitalism" and lays the basis for heightened exploitation around the world.
As we have argued in our magazine, Left-wing weaknesses, both intellectual and organizational, provide a vacuum that is readily filled by the far-right. At the very least, the anti-WTO campaign is a good example of this. In the words of the International Militant Anti-Fascist Network, with which we are affiliated: "Fascism is not the cause of the Left's collapse but the punishment for it." ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com
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