[lbo-talk] Allen, racism, fascism and beyond

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 2 11:06:49 PST 2008


I still think calling the Bush people fascists is an insult to fascists.

Fascists had:

Personal bravery Really good poets Fashion sense

Bush people have:

None of the above

--- John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


> Carrol Cox wrote:
> > ... to an authoritarian state of a species we do
> not have a name for. It
> > is extremely dangerous to blur the reality by
> shouting "fascist." There
> > is very little about the Bush Administration that
> resembles fascism. The
> > _effect_ on us might be very similar, but the
> ultimate effect of cyanide
> > and a bullet in the head is also the same, but one
> protects against
> > those two dangers in quite different ways.
>
> How about a different analogy?
> The effect of a knife to the heart vs a bullet
> through the heart.
> Different things that kill by nearly identical
> means.
> And are ultimately protected against in more similar
> than dissimilar ways.
> How does one protect differently against creeping
> fascism than one does
> against our current US admins authoritarianism?
>
> John Thornton
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