On Feb 18, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 06:55 PM 2/18/2010, Matthias Wasser wrote:
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>
>> On general principle I stop taking a writer seriously whenever she
>> claims a
>> movement not from the 1930s or claiming direct descendance from
>> such is
>> "fascist."
>
>
> But Marv is saying no one did that here. And I think he's right.
Chip Berlet did introduce the Weimar meme, though not specifically in reference to the TB'ers:
> 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