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> R wrote:
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> > >If America were Fascist every American on this listerv would be dead or
in
> > >a concentration camp.
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> > very likely. hell of a place to meet your internet friends isn't
> > it. Carrol, i'll be looking for you.
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> Some or many of us might well end up dead or in a concentration camp --
> but that would not be evidence for the U.S. being fascist. It could
> easily just be an instance of the marvellous repressive power of
> capitalist democracy -- or it could be a quite new form of authoritarian
> state. This habit of using "fascism" as an all-purpose pejorative is
> worse than stupid -- it's dangerous. It will prevent our organizing
> about real authoritarian threats, not just ghosts from the inter-war
> period.
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> Carrol
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