[lbo-talk] Tamas on Fascism

[JOANNA A.]

This seems to be the drift of Corey Robin's "Reactionary Mind" -- that at stake is always the need to justify hierarchy as the only possible foundation of a health society.

But the growth of the police state seems to be a needed parallel. Noted this today:

http://rt.com/news/annoying-behaviour-uk-law-598/

"The UK government is moving towards passing legislation which could criminalize behavior deemed capable of causing a “nuisance or annoyance.” The bill has already passed through its second hearing in the House of Lords and looks set to become law."

Joanna

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What all this verbiage amounted to was a quite serious attempt to 
re-intro­duce caste society, that is, human groups with radically different 
entitlements and duties (against uniformizing and levelling, ‘mechanistic’ 
conceptions of egalitarian liberalism and socialism and bourgeois 
individualism): the Führ­erprinzip in all occupations (witness Heidegger’s 
infamous ‘Rektoratsrede’, i.e., commencement address); vocational groups 
dissolving classes (e.g., steel-workers would have meant, in the future, 
Krupp and Thyssen as well as the steel-workers proper); untouchables (Jews 
and other condemned races), and so on.