[lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a DebtCrisis

[Chris Doss]

There is no fascist movement in the US, and no group with any clout at all with a fascist ideology in the US whatsoever. The likelihood of a fascist takeover in the US is on par with that of a takeover by Pharaonic Egypt -- unless I decide to redefine "fascist" as "right wingers," instead of what it actually means, "people who believe that all classes in a society should work together harmoniously under the aegis of the total State," which oddly enough is the definition the Fascists themselves used.

Give up the pseudo-Marxist "definition." It's bullshit.
 Christopher E. Doss
Moscow, Russian Federation 

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From: Marv Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca>
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a DebtCrisis

On 2010-02-18, at 9:40 PM, Chris Doss wrote:


> Really, does this sound like a notion to which any tea-bagger would subscribe?:
> 
> "Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity."
>  
> Or this?
>  
> "The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State - a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values - interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people."
>  
> http://www.worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/Reading/Germany/mussolini.htm
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Mussolini sounds wonderfully high-minded. Almost makes me want to buy a black shirt.

Who on this list has ever described the teabaggers as "fascist"? Names and cites, please.

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