> 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