>
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>
> andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
> >NB, have people noticed that this is a case for relative autonomy.
> >Despite the importance of oil in this equation, the war and the US
> >hegemonic drive is decidedly NOT reflecting the wishes or interests
> >of the big bourgeoisie. This is state-driven, primarily.
>
> Yup, and that state was appropriated by a particular sectoral,
> geographical, and ideological gang, more thuggish than the median.
>
> And right now, these guys are so awful that I'm happy to have BW
> making arguments like this. I know they're not good allies for the
> long-term class struggle, but anything that causes trouble for the
> PNAC posse is ok by me.
>
> Doug
> ********
>
> CB: Some of us define fascism as the open terrorist rule of the most
> chauvinist, reactionary, militarist, thuggish, gangsterist SECTORS of
> finance capital ( finance capital is defined as a merger of finance and
> industrial capital), monopoly capital. This definition obviously does not
> view capital as a monolith. The united front against fascism in WWII
> included capitalists, like Roosevelt and other liberals, even conservatives
> like Churchill.
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