Fascism? in Tasmania

Kelley Walker kwalker2 at gte.net
Sun Jul 1 17:32:05 PDT 2001


the two Carrols wrote:


> > Brenda Rosser wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps someone in the lbo list could define what sort of behaviour
> > our State Government is currently involved:
> >
> > Is it f'ascist' to be allowing plantation corporations to poison a
> > multitude of household drinking water supplies with pesticides?
> >
> > Is it 'fascist' to carry on the escalation of the destruction of our
> > native forests and wildlife through massive clearfelling and 1080
> > poisoning state-wide?
>
>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.
>
>Carrol

and, at PEN-L:

> My objection to you, Mark, & Lou is that all three of you keep insisting

> on responding to _extreme_ views (and also claiming that since those

> views are so extreme, there is no need to outline positive views of your

> own). No one seems willing to argue with rational opponents. You (Doug,

> Lou, Mark) either select "extreme" opponents or misconstrue reasonable

> ones as being extreme. No possible rational discourse can emerge from

> this.

>

> Carrol

while it's not that her views were extreme, it is, rather, that you choose, shall we say, fish in a barrel.

heh.

smoke my gun,

kelley



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