Fascism? in Tasmania

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Fri Jun 29 08:05:23 PDT 2001



>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?
>
>And of course, all against the clear and stated wishes of the
>Tasmanian people elucidated very clearly in a State funded forum
>entitled (rather ironically) 'Tasmania Together'.
>
>If this is not 'fascism' then what is it?
>
>We need some words to describe it.
>
>Regards
>Brenda Rosser

I think the words to describe it are "business as usual under capitalism."

Yoshie



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