"Mr. WD" wrote:
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> On 10/26/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> > Cops have been torturing people forever in the USA. And there were
> > far greater violations of civil liberties in the past too - Lincoln
> > suspending habeas corpus, Wilson & Palmer banning magazines from the
> > mails, Palmer's raids. Let's not get carried away with the alleged
> > novelty of the Bush years.
>
> Well I think it would be just plain wrong to call Lincoln's suspension
> of Habeas Corpus "fascist," but the Palmer raids probably qualify.
I just think it is intellectually AND politically incoherent to identify a species with a genus. All rabbits are mammals but all mammals are not rabbits. And fascism (a phenomenon of the inter-war period) was a very peculiar development, and it fucks up everything to try to make it a template for all forms of oppression and tyranny.
Carrol