[lbo-talk] Re: 14 characteristics of fascism

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Wed Jun 11 13:20:12 PDT 2003


Quoting npchilds at connect.ab.ca:


> >According to noted scholar Hunter Thompson, the whole world would be
> >like Las Vegas.
>
> I don't remember reading HST speculating about this topic,

It's in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" (incidentally, one of the funniest books of all time) where HST says something about the casinos being "what the whole hep world would be doing if the Nazis had won the war", or something like that.

But remember, he was describing Las Vegas in 1971 -- a pretty reactionary place. Fortunately, the fine folks at HERE showed up to make the place inhabitable.

-- DRR



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