[lbo-talk] Re: 14 characteristics of fascism

[JBrown72073 at cs.com]

Jbrown:
>> >According to noted scholar Hunter Thompson, the whole world would be
>> >like Las  Vegas.
>
npchilds at connect.ab.ca:
>> I don't remember reading HST speculating about this topic, 
>
DRR:
>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.

And HERE reformers, if I recall correctly.  In the area of ubiquitous public 
female sexual servitude, it still looks like a Nazi playground to me.  But 
then, so much does these days.

Jenny Brown