[lbo-talk] What is you know what ?

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Feb 16 19:25:34 PST 2006


I think it's pretty safe to say CB uses a definition of fascism that seems more in keeping with the work of Thayer Watkins and most of this list do not. Is fascism more corporatist or totalitarian? CB seems to think corporatist and the list seems to lean towards totalitarian. At least that's how I read this discussion.

None of this means I don't see similarities between what exists today and facism, just that I think the path we are on will not lead to fascism as I believe most people define it. It will take us somewhere new.

Ultimately if fascism is more a form of corporatism the US has a far too pluralistic system to fit in that category in my opinion. I don't see that changing in my lifetime or even very soon afterward. If fascism is rather more a form of totalitarianism the US is no closer to that definition. However that doesn't mean someone like Bush wouldn't wish to have such a set-up. I believe he would like to be in the ruling elite of an authoritarian regime. Too bad for him he isn't going to get one.

Calling our current regine "fucked up" however is hardly illuminating. Someone more clever than I am will simply need to come up with a snappy new term to describe the current set-up. The system we currently live under is unique in enough aspects to warrant an "ism" of its own.

If I can't call the cops "bloody fascists" when they harrass me what fun would that be?

John Thornton



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