Fw: [lbo-talk] not everything is getting worse...

[Shane Mage]

Gar Lipow wrote:
>...l've got a language
>question here. A lot of people are worried about the U.S. moving even
>farther right than it is - to , as you put it some position "closely
>analogous" to fascism...so  if you strongly disapprove of the word "fascist"
>when discussing this danger (real or imaginary), what one word do  you
>recommend instead?

Not one word, but two:  Police State.
The legal cover already exists.  The enforcement apparatus
already exists and is steadily being expanded.  The political
conditions for implementation do not yet exist, but all that
is needed to establish them is another spectacular provocation
`a la Reichstag Fire/Pearl Harbor/9-11.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not
consent to be called 
Zeus."                                                         

Herakleitos of Ephesos