On Dec 23, 2011, at 12:20 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
> On 2011-12-23, at 11:58 AM, Carrol Cox wrote:
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>> "Fascist" becomes a mere excuse for sticking with the fucking DP.
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> Another sweeping pronunciamento.
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> The Black Panthers, whom you hold up as your exemplar, routinely (and mistakenly) denounced the US as a "fascist" country.
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> Were they also just shilling for the DP?
In current usage, and not that of 40+ years ago, Carrol is about 90% right. It's not just the "fascist" - it's the whole obsession with The Right. It overlooks how awful the Dems are, and typically operates as a way of pushing the reluctant into the Donkey's arms. You see it in the CP press (represented here by Cde Brown), you see it in all the little foundation-funded orgs that obsess about the neo-Nazi threat, etc.
Doug