> Bertram Gross, Friendly Fascism, South End Press,
> 1980.
>
> An interesting book, I went along with his analysis
> until the end of the book, where his prescription for
> preventing these dire developments is to support
> social democracy, i.e. DSA. Wha'?
> Alan Jacobson
Chapters from the book.
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Friendly_Fascism_BGross.html
Bertram Gross was the major author of the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act of '78 and edited, "A Great Society?, " which while not as critical of LBJ as the New Left anthology, "The Great Society Reader: The Failure of American Liberalism. New York: Random House, 1967, ed. by David Mermelstein and Marvin Gettelman., is worth a look.
Please expand on your criticisms of DSA and social democracy. In Santa Cruz NAM I was one who supported the merger w/ DSOC to create DSA, can't say I'm, in retrospect, totally happy w/ the state of the org. but, does any socialist group in the USA exercise anywhere near the influence needed in their "mass work"? And, surely, you aren't echoing Third Period Comintern doctrine on, "social fascism, " here are you?
-- Michael Pugliese