> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Charles Brown
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:59 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: RE: China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education
>
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So, far the Dimitrov's and the
> Comintern's arguments are more persuasive to me than the one
> you cite below.
OK, what sectors of big business and finance captial supported the NSDAP during the social movement phase led ideologically by the Strasser brothers?
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> Literally, a few days before the Oklahoma City bombing, I had
> written a memo to the Detroit NAACP on the need for us to up
> our diligence against militia terrorism ( that coincidence
> even scared me).
What militia terrorism? There have been no acts of militia terrorism, and only a handful of arrests for what amounts largely to barroom bravado.
The OKC bombing was carried out by a neonazi. He was trying to punish the government and recruit out of the militia movement. Most of the people in the militia movement were not fascists much less neonazis. Demonizing the (wretched) militia movement as fascist encouraged passage of the 1996 legislation that eroded civil liberties for all of us, but esecially Arabs, Arab-Americans, and Muslims, who have been hit by that law the hardest. Remember the Brown Scare? It provided the legal basis for what later became the Red Scare. The CP supported legislation against "fascists" that was later used against communists and a whole range of liberals and progressives. So much for the historical success of your theoretical base. Frankly, Trotsky (God forgive me...) was closer to an accurate analysis of fascism than the Comintern.
Repeating a 70-year-old slogan over and over again is not debate. Dimitrov want a cracker?
:-)
-Chip
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