[lbo-talk] Iraq excess death study up

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Oct 12 16:37:52 PDT 2006


"www.leninology. blogspot.com" wrote:
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> Fascism - real fascism - is not far off.

Sigh. Tyranny, real tyranny, is quite possibly not far off -- but if and when it comes it will no more be fascism than it will be divine-right monarchy or Latin-American style military dictatorships. We do not know what in what form tyranny, if it comes, will come to the united states, but we do know it will NOT be fascism and it will NOT be divine-right monarchy and it will NOT be an 'oriental dispotism.' Forms of repression like other political forms are specific to specific historical conjunctions. It may be worse than fascism -- and I suspect that if the u.s. ruling class moved to destroy bourgeois democracy the it _would_ be much worse than fascism. Fascism was profoundly inefficient. The U.S. ruling class can be pretty fucking stupid, but I suspect they would be smart enough to get behin something more efficient.

Using the cry of fascism will contribute to disarming ourselves before whatever new form of tyranny does appear.

Carrol



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