[lbo-talk] martial law in US

[Mike Ballard]

Not to change the subject *too* much, but for a non-socialist view of
what martial law/fascistic forces were at work in Australia in 1922,
check out D.H. Lawrence's KANGAROO and, if you can get it, D.H.
LAWRENCE IN AUSTRALIA by Robert Darroch, Macmillan, 1981.  There's also
an excellent film "Kangaroo" with Judy Davis, which is pretty true to
Lawrence's novel. 

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/kangaroo/  

The book and film were and largely are, misunderstood and a lot of that
has to do with Lawrence's secretive stance about its source. I'm
convinced that he was frightened.  Let's just say that he ran into a
Wobbly sympathizer ( a man named Siebenhaar, who was active in the the
defence of Monty Miller) in Perth after he and his wife Frieda docked
in Fremantle.  And from there, the couple went on to Sydney and
discovered a secret army, headed up by an an ex-major general in the
AIF.  All of this led to literay imagination based on realities of the
time.

The lessons here are in the historical connections between the German
Freikorps; the actually, existing Fascists in Italy, who took State
power in the early twenties; and the aforementioned (in this thread)
attempts at a coup d'etat against FDR in the thirties, among others.  

Best,
Mike B)

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