Think Weimar without the organized left.
It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
We really need to start developing tactics appropriate to the current historic moment. We need a broad coalition as a bulwark against further regressive political policies and repressive government actions.
The problem with neofascism in contemporary neoliberal states is not that it can seize state power--that chance is very small--but that whole sectors of the society will be allowed to fall through the social safety net while other sectors are targeted through xenophobic, racist, and hetero-patriarchal populist movements of the political right.
-Chip
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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Chris Maisano Sent: Wed 2/17/2010 3:51 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: [lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a DebtCrisis
And a governability crisis sounds like a hell of a lot of fun to me.
Not if there isn't an organized left around to try to push it in a decent direction. We don't really have one of those, and a crisis situation isn't necessarily the best set of conditions in order to get one together.
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