Leftists (white) and Black Liberation, was Re: Civil Rights

[Carrol Cox]

Chip Berlet wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At the risk of opening up old debates, I would be curious as to what Hakki is
> using for a definition of fascism?
> 
> I agree with Nathan that the term is bandied about without much value to
> describe the U.S. So definitions do matter, whether or not hell freezes over,
> because otherwise we are all just flapping our virtual penises on the table --
> as my (lesbian/feminist) boss likes to observe.
> 
>

I agree with Chip. One of my own particular reasons for resisting the
widespread use of the label "fascism" is that such usage often reflects
(and generates) a misunderstanding of the terrible repressive power --
past, present, and future -- of ordinary bourgeois democracy.

There is also the old problem of crying Wolf! of course.

Carrol