"American Nationalism," was Re: Fascism & Monopoly Capitalism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>This summary (in the whole post) makes sense. Accepting it, at least
>provisionally, raises for me another question of interest independently
>from those fascism or right-wing populism. America as a "nation" has
>always been a bit of an oddity -- first of all since (like all settler
>colonialisms) its "natives" aren't native, as it were. But then add the
>racist ideology arising from slavery and the continued oppression of
>black Americans, the growing population of spanish speaking residents
>(citizens and non citizens), etc. etc. "volkish ethnocentrism" has to
>rather violently (in rhetoric and potentially in more physical forms)
>contradict actual demographics. The "English Only" movement, etc.
>Clearly this is a seedbed for fascism or neofacism as Chip defines them,
>but its a complex of elements we have to deal with whether a fascist
>threat is imminent or not. And some forms of it -- e.g., various
>religious trends -- cross racial lines. I imagine there are substantial
>numbers of "non-whites" who respond to the rhetoric of Cal Thompson.
>
>This is all jumbled, but so is the reality, and I think it worth
>pursuing clarity in it.
>
>Just what constitutes the core of "America" ideologically (in the
>ideology of American patriotism)?
>
>Carrol

"We are here to help the Vietnamese because inside every gook, there 
is an American trying to get out" (_Full Metal Jacket_ at 
<http://www.krug.org/scripts/fullmetal.html>).

Yoshie