[lbo-talk] INSTANT POPULISM: A short history of populism old and new

c.berlet at publiceye.org c.berlet at publiceye.org
Fri Dec 3 14:18:00 PST 2010


Let me be blunt.

The Dimitrov definition was wrong when it was formulated over the objection across two plenums of many delegates with actual direct experience with fascism in its stage as a mass movement.

It was simplistic, factually false, and ideologically-motivated.

It was crap then and it is crap now.

-Chip


> Alan Rudy
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>
>
> APR: I think it is really important to define fascism carefully and
> the definition I think is important to use does not fit with Jim Crow.
>
> ^^^^^
> CB: Hey Alan. We've had a number of threads on the list on this where I
> have
> discussed my definition. Here are some:
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> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2008/2008-October/016427.html
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> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2008/2008-January/000144.html
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> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1998/1998-October/008693.html
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> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1998/1998-October/008414.html
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> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/1998/1998-May/000875.html
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>
>
>  I use Dimitrov's (
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Dimitrov) definition as the core
> of my definition:  Open
> terrorist rule of the most reactionary, chauvinist, bellicose sector
> of finance capital.



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