Waiting for Der Mann - Imperialism & Fascism

[a rebours]

--- Chip Berlet <cberlet at igc.org> wrote:
> > > > are there many competing imperialisms today?
> > >
> > > There is one country currently capable of world
> > > imperialism, but there are
> > > several movements and regimes that are fascist
> > > or authoritarian oligarchies.
> > > We should be careful not to support fascism or
> > > oligarchy as a way to combat
> > > imperialism.  That is suicidal.
> >
> > were the taliban fascist?  then, today's fascism
> > must be a weak force, as they got pretty easily 
> > louted by a
> > few months of bombings, special forces, assorted
> > warlords....
> 
> This is an absurd reductionism of the term fascist
> to be equivalent to military power.

fascists without military power are a weak force, at
least no serious competition to imperialists....


> Let me pose a sharper question. Do you support
> allying with brutal
> authoritarian regimes to smash imperialism? Is the
> enemy of my enemy always
> my friend?

imho, it is altogether unnecesary to conceive of the
taliban, iraq under hussein, etc. as fascist regimes
(as you apparently do) and imperialists (as
s-t-t at juno.com suggested)....you can oppose them just
as well or even better without resorting to the f-word
or the i-word.

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