[lbo-talk] Creeping Fascism

[Chip Berlet]

How true.  The combination of an inabilty to define fascism and an inability to find language that describes what one does not like usually creates an intellectual atmosphere of a room full of flatulent geese.

 
All sound and fury...and a really bad smell.

 
-Chip

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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Doug Henwood
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... What is it then? The whole point of fascism is not that it's 
oppressive, but that it's characterized by the radical subordination 
of the individual to the state. In the economic sphere it's 
corporatist and anti-market. If "fascism" is just used as a synonym 
for "icky" then the word loses all meaning.

Doug