[lbo-talk] Re: 14 characteristics of fascism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Fri Jun 6 21:19:33 PDT 2003


Chip Berlet wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>

I used the label "fascist" pretty loosely myself for years -- decades. And it was when I began perceiving how repressive capitalism at its "best" was that made me start rethinking the term. Repression is normal; relative absence of repression is the aberration.

Carrol



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