[lbo-talk] a note on the american right and fascism

[Wojtek S]

[WS:]  What fascist thugs think is quite irrelevant, what matters is the
degree to which the ruling elite can control these thugs or at least direct
their actions toward intended targets.  The Nazi SA (Sturmabteilung - no pun
intended :)) had probably a worldview similar to the US right, but as long
as they acted as just Sturmabteilung or storm troopers for the movement, it
did not matter.  Only after the movement had taken over the country, the
differences between the worldview of the thugs doing the street fighting and
that of the ruling elite started to matter.  These differences were also
rather quickly resolved (the Night of the Long Knives
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives) and the thugs were
either eliminated or subdued.

Wojtek

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:39 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:


> In the 1960's, some social scientists did a study of members of Billy James
> Hargis' Christian Crusade, which I imagine our vigilant fascism-spotters
> would classify as proto-fascism or something. The Christian crusaders were
> asked to place various forms of government on a spectrum. They placed
> "Nazism, fascism, socialism and communism" on the extreme left; "no
> government at all" on the extreme right; and "the American system" (meaning
> their preferred system) in the middle.
>
> That's the American right for you, at least in their own imagination.
>
> SA
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