[lbo-talk] Apres L'empire

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Amadeus:
> I don't share this skepticism. While there is
> certainly a historical precedent for this type of
> regression, there is in turn a precedent for
> revitalizations which occur after these type of
> backslides. If we're looking at fascism from the most
> particularist standpoint, we can see that fascism in
> Germany was militarily defeated and that the German
> economy recovered. The feudalist autocracies were
> arguably at their most despotic when they were at
> their collapse in Europe, and the bourgeoisie took
> over. If we are to go out on a limb and predict that
> neo-fascist regressivism will occur in the United
> States, why not go further and predict what will occur
> once those paper tigers blow away? Surely you don't
> think it's an unending downward spiral?

You certainly have a point here.  The question is whether we will live long
enough to witness the sun shining again after the storm.  Was it Keynes who
said that in the long run, we are all dead?

Wojtek