fascism/upward mobility

joanna bujes joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com
Wed Feb 20 13:37:15 PST 2002


At 04:11 PM 02/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> White men and the myth of upward mobility
>
>http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/2002archive/02-02archive/k022002.html

Yeah, I think this tells us more about the prospects of fascism in the twenty first century than anything else I've read on LBO so far. Let me try a definition:

Fascism: the successful attempt (during a period of Capitalist crisis) to get the working class to identify with the ruling class via some shared national or ethnic "identity" -- which serves, of course, to conceal real class conflicts. As such, and not coincidentally, fascism may even represent itself to be anti-capitalist....for a while.

Joanna B.



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