Niall Ferguson (Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute, natch) is their current guru.
Anglosphere ideologues are the most avid promoters of "American Empire" - that is their specific ideological role - but it turns out that not only is the Thatcherite "neoliberal" ideology of political economy of Anglosphere (Canada, Britain, Australia) origin, but so too are an inordinate number of "American" neocons. Thus a broader, more secular ideology of neo-colonial imperialism and neo-liberal economics is combined with a more narrowly provincial American Christian-Zionism, with the neocons as the pivot, with one foot in the Anglosphere, the other in Christian-Zion.
It will be from the union of the two that the next wave of militant fascism of global extent will emerge.
Explains Christopher Hitchens.
Proyect should know better than to make this arificial counterpose:
> Of course, just like in the 1930s the only way to fight this rightwing
> movement is through resolute and radical direct action, not dithering at
> the ballot box
And it is not enough to simply quote the classics. We have to be capable of more than being good decoders. We need to express them in our own tongue, here and now.
-Brad
joanna bujes wrote:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [PEN-L] The Jesus Factor
> Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 09:56:21 -0400
> From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at PANIX.COM>
> Reply-To: PEN-L list <PEN-L at SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU>
> To: PEN-L at SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU
>
> I watched this Frontline PBS documentary last night and urge everybody
> to look at the show's website, which has a lot of useful information:
>
> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jesus/
>
> Although most of us had some inkling about Bush's connections to the
> Christian right, this show really lays it all out on the table. These
> are some really scuzzy types, who raise greed and sanctimoniousness to
> unheard of levels.
>
> It occurred to me while watching this show that there is a phenomenon at
> work here that has never been fully explored by Marxism. While Trotsky
> wrote many useful and insightful analyses of fascism, there has not been
> nearly as much attention devoted to the particular character of late
> capitalist devolution which takes a different form. You get a toxic
> mixture of Judeo-Christianity and rightwing politics that continues to
> embrace parliamentary forms with repression around the edges. In
> semicolonial contexts, the repression is escalated--particularly with
> respect to rebellious indigenous populations. I am thinking of the Bush
> presidency in the first instance and apartheid South Africa and Israel
> in the second.
>
> Of course, just like in the 1930s the only way to fight this rightwing
> movement is through resolute and radical direct action, not dithering at
> the ballot box.
>
> >>Renaudel, Frossard and their similars seriously imagine that an
> alliance with the Radicals is an alliance with the “middle classes” and
> consequently a barrier against Fascism. These men see nothing but
> parliamentary shadows. They ignore the real evolution of the masses and
> chase after the “Radical Party” [the French "lesser evil"] which has
> outlived itself and which in the meantime turns its back on them. They
> think that in an era of great social crisis an alliance of classes set
> in motion can be replaced by a bloc with a parliamentary clique that is
> compromised and doomed to extinction. A real alliance of the proletariat
> and the middle classes is not a question of parliamentary statistics but
> of revolutionary dynamics.
>
> This alliance must be created and forged in the struggle. The whole
> meaning of the present political situation resides in the fact that the
> despairing petty bourgeoisie is beginning to break from the yoke of
> parliamentary discipline and from the tutelage of the conservative
> “radical” clique which has always fooled the people, and which has now
> definitely betrayed it. To join in this situation with the Radicals
> means to condemn oneself to the scorn of the masses, and to push the
> petty bourgeoisie into the embrace of Fascism as the sole saviour.
>
> The working-class party must occupy itself not with a hopeless effort to
> save the party of the bankrupts. It must, on the contrary, with all its
> strength, accelerate the process of liberation of the masses from
> Radical influence. The more zeal and the more boldness it applies to
> this task, the more surely and rapidly will it prepare a real alliance
> of the working class with the petty bourgeoisie. It is necessary to
> place oneself at their head and not at their tail. History is working
> quickly. Woe to him who lags behind!
>
> full:
> http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1936/witherfrance/#whither
>
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