Fascism anyone?/ The New Nazism From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
What does this have to do with fascism. What is happening in the United States today (and worse is yet to come) can only be called capitalism by those who are utterly naive about the repressive powers of ordinary capitalist democracy. The first modern genocides (slavery and the Indians) were carried out by a democracy, not a fascist or even a bonapartist state.
This throwing around of the word fascism is more than ridiculous -- it is pure unadorned apologetics for capitalist democracy.
Carrol
^^^^^^^^^ CB: However, Hitler had as much or more claim to having been elected, and from a system in which a larger proportion of the population could vote by law than the U.S. in 1787 through 1919. Only propertied white men could vote through most of the U.S. genocides. It could be said that the Nazis dictatorship was as democratic as the Colonialists/US usurpers and slavers.
Also, the Nazis major crimes were their crimes against peace, i.e. the war. The Nuremberg trial ranked crimes against peace as a higher offense than crimes against humanity. Thus, the current U.S. declaration of generalized crimes against peace puts them in a Nazis category more than "what is happening IN the U.S. today ".
In general, there is no premature anti-fascism. To say "this is capitalism" is like stating a genus without stating the species. Fascism is a species capitalism.