[lbo-talk] Fascism, right-wing populism, and contemporary research

[c b]

You know, it would be really refreshing if someone here at LBO Talk
other that Woj actually bothered to read some of the scholarship on
fascism written during the last 20 years.
For the cram course, start here:

http://www.hnn.us/articles/122469.html

In utter despair at definitions and arguments that are 50 years out of date...

Chip Berlet

^^^^^
CharlesB: Why don't you give us a succinct summary of the main
theoretical ideas you have culled from your vast research on the
subject ? And what _is_ your theory of society and history
underpinning your theory of fascism ?  Are you for socialism ? liberal
Catholicism ?  What is to be done about proto-fascist political
organizing in the US ?

Obviously, in the US, at the center of fascism in American history is
the KKK in Jim Crow. With the rise of imperialism in the US, the South
had open terrorist rule against Black people.

The militias in the 90's is a recent threat of a potentially fascist
mass movement.

Then the Bush administration took the whiffs of fascism orginating in
the Reagan administration and puffed them way up.

(See LBO-Talk archives for debate on these point circa, oh, five years ago ?)