The Crimes of Empire?

[R]

At 03:13 PM 9/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Chris Doss wrote:
>
>>>[just because you post it, doesn't mean you totally agree. Chomsky
>>>by the way has said corporations are fascist and is of the view
>>>America was fascist during World War II.]
>>>http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_septoct_2002/chomsky.html
>
>>Chomsky has never said anything of the sort.
>
>Actually he has, but perhaps not in those simple terms. He's written quite 
>a bit about how corporations are totalitarian institutions, controlling 
>every aspect of a worker's work life. We are all familiar with the fact 
>that we park our free speech rights at the door when we go to work in the 
>morning.

even our going to the bathroom rights if we work for Jim Beam Dist

R


>Chomsky makes several observations about America during WW II in his 
>recent book, "Understanding Power.' He makes the accurate observation that 
>the U.S. basically turned into a fascist country, what with its suspension 
>of civil liberties, imprisonment of dissenters, creation of concentration 
>camps, and so on.
>
>Interestingly enough, I'm currently preparing several pages for my website 
>with articles that detail anarchist resistance to militarism during WW II. 
>So far, I've read the articles on anarchists in Japan and France. It was 
>rather revealing to discover that several French anarchists involved in 
>the Resistance were imprisoned with Communist "comrades" and later 
>abandoned by them because their resistance was sufficiently pro-France 
>nationalism.
>
>Chuck0