Brenda Rosser wrote:
>
> Carol
> You said:
>
> " You simply do not understand how vicious and destructive bourgeois
> democracy at its very best is. Calling this sort of thing fascist is
> really to apologize for capitalism. You have made "fascism" merely a
> synonym for nasty, and therefore emptied it of any useful meaning."
>
> Perhaps the real question is: What WORD, rather than a phrase, can we use
> to describe the institutionalised poisoning of the population and the
> (almost overnight) destruction of our natural environment?
>
Capitalism. It's a perfectly good word. A central goal of the left is to make it carry for masses of people the content it carries in Marx's _Capital_. A search for synonyms for nasty to replace "capitalism" merely contributes to bourgeois illusions.
Why do you need merely emotive terms (shades of the logical positives) when what is needed is sober descriptions of the inherent destructiveness of a social order.
Carrol