Now you are just being lazy and rejecting the answer you don't want. I gave it two names:
"Authoritarian state actions in the form of militarism and interventionism abroad and government repression and erosion of civil liberties at home."
and
"militarist capitalist imperialism"
Combine the two phrases and you get:
"Repressive authoritarian militarist capitalist imperialism"
Which is not the same thing as Fascism, especially in its stage as a social movement.
Griffin calls fascism:
"palingenetic populist ultra-nationalism"
Which in state power forms a cross class alliance with
"Repressive authoritarian militarist capitalist imperialism"
Fascism in state power is the combination of the two.
Chip
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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of cgrimes at rawbw.COM Sent: Thu 1/3/2008 10:54 AM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: [lbo-talk] Allen, racism, fascism and beyond
``The Bush administration has driven the country straight down the road to ...'' CG
``...an authoritarian state of a species we do not have a name for. It is extremely dangerous to blur the reality by shouting fascist.''
Carrol
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The thread wondered off into the usual direction of attempting to dissuade usage of the term xxxxx. Okay, they were Italians, so they were different, and?
That wasn't really the intent of the question. So I'll repeat it.
``.. I want to ask you to explain, why you don't think a (xxxxx) threat comes from the Bush administration? I am serious. In my view they are not just horrid or icky, they are dangerous..''
Everybody seemed to immediately focus on the term xxxxx and why it didn't apply, but nobody came up with answer or supplied a name for this concrete threat.