the smartest fascist?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Sep 5 05:59:02 PDT 2002


"Peter K." wrote:
>


> Yes, but if the economy went into a grinding long-term recession and
> the terrorists pulled off another atrocity things might get ugly. Even so,
> pre-Nazi Germany and 21st-century America are a lot different.
>

"Things [will] get ugly" in the U.S. sooner or later. And they may be every bit as ugly as were conditions in Hitler's Germany. But those who want to call this a "fascist" threat simply can't understand that "fascism" was a species, not a whole fucking phylum. There must be innumerable routes to authoritarian rule and numerous forms of authoritarian rule other than those that have already manifested themselves.

I say this because every time I deny that the U.S. is in "danger" of becoming fascist, some idiot thinks I'm saying that "it" (authoritarian rule) "can't happen here." It damn well can, and it is those who can't imagine "it" being other than fascist who are being naive and failing to guard against "it."

Carrol


> Peter



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