> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carrol Cox [mailto:cbcox at ilstu.edu]
> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 6:58 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: 14 characteristics of fascism
>
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> We are clearly moving towards a very unpleasant condition in
> the u.s., and I think it important to see how much more
> unpleasant it could get or may well get. But I really don't
> see how it helps either to understand that condition or to
> fight against it to make such dissolute use of language as is
> involved with throwing around the labels "fascist" and "nazi."
>
> If we can't fight outrage without using the label "fascist"
> our politics are pretty thin.
>
> Carrol
Exactly, and if we have to call state repression under capitalism "fascist" then we become apologists for banal repression under capitalism by implying it can't happen under "normal" capitalism so it has to be fascism.
Chip Berlet Senior Analyst Political Research Associates http://www.publiceye.org