[lbo-talk] Political-biological determininsm (US fascism awareness week)

JBrown72073 at cs.com JBrown72073 at cs.com
Thu Nov 1 15:37:03 PDT 2007



>Chris Doss
>Also, racism is not inherently fascist and fascism is
>not inherently racist.
>
^^^^
>CB: US fascism has been racist, and is racist in 2007 ( see the KKK,
>neo-Confederates, Aryan nation, ultra-rightists).

But Chris, fascism doesn't exist in the abstract, it exists in a social and political context. I would go farther than Charles (maybe) and say that U.S. fascism has racism as its outstanding, distinguishing characteristic because it is THE thing that can get a working-class base supporting austerity at home and empire abroad. Without it, they got nothing, or very little. Now perhaps you can forecast the emergence of a more sophisticated rainbow fascism in the U.S. but the only signs I see of that are attempts (fairly unsuccessful so far) to get whites and blacks all together hating Arabs and Mexicans. But hey, there are plenty of 'races' to hate and thus plenty of racism to encourage, as Primo Levi said, everyone is someone's Jew.

Jenny Brown </HTML>



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