the smartest fascist?

R rhisiart at earthlink.net
Wed Sep 4 13:56:40 PDT 2002


At 04:25 PM 9/4/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>See below
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Ian Murray
> > Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 3:19 PM
> > To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> > Subject: the smartest fascist?
> >
><<SNIP>>
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>This type of hyperbolic rhetoric will ensure that the left remains
>irrelevant. Capitalist "democratic" systems have always had an
>ability to use government repression when needed. Bush is an
>authoritarian, and a militarist, but hardly a fascist.

well, he's got first base and second base covered. i wouldn't wait until he steals home plate.

i'd say shrub is very much in line with the tradition of american fascism, right down to his social darwinist, racist soul.

but to confine the issue only to shrub without considering his pals artificially limits the discussion. shrub, taken alone, is nothing; one of the few people i've ever heard of who can take a silver spoon, fill it with cocaine and set a pattern of living where he's never accomplished one single thing on his own merits. his is a "handicap" that truly leaves one breathless.

R


>Even if you
>agree that there is a whiff of fascism in Bush's administration,
>this analysis sounds like a Weather Underground pamphlet leading
>towards immeddiate armed struggle now before it is too late, hurry,
>no time to think, just act.
>
>Political hysteria is often eloquent but seldom useful and never
>strategic.
>
>-Chip Berlet
>
>For a better understanding of fascism from a militant left position,
>try reading J. Sakai:
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>Full text at:
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>http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/books/fascism/shock.html
>
>THE SHOCK OF RECOGNITION:
>Looking at Hamerquist's "Fascism & Anti-Fascism"
>by J. Sakai



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