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From: cbcox-AT-rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu (Carrol Cox)
Subject: Re: M-I: A fusillade towards the past. What is Fascism?
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 16:29:44 -0500 (CDT)


    Over a year ago there was a cyber-seminar on fascism, which I believe
was pretty inconclusive (as one would expect). It is worth exploring again
(and probably again and again and again). My own tendency over the years
has been (when reacting spontaneously) to be quick on the trigger in
throwing the label "fascism" around and, on reflection, to be very
resistant to using it. The reason being that (a) I don't like to blur
the brutality that is "normal" to capitalist rule with a historically
specific (and aggressively terroristic) form of capitalist rule by
labelling all brutality fascist, and (b) I think fascism (in some very
specific form) remains a permanent possibility of capitalism, and
we don't want to blunt the defense against fascism by calling
everything we don't like fascist.

    For these reasons I side with Doug rather than Louis G in the
debate below:

    Carrol

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
> Louis R Godena wrote:
>
> >My
> >point is that American Jews -- liberal or conservative -- have actively, or
> >at least passively, supported Zionism -- which is after all, Jewish fascism,
> >is it not?
>
> No, it isn't. Israel has committed many crimes, but I really don't think
> they earn the label fascist. The U.S. was founded on genocide and slavery -
> horrible crimes both of them, but are they fascist? Was killing 2-3 million
> Indochinese U.S. fascism? The U.S. government has subsidized Israel for
> decades, for its own imperial purposes - is that fascism?
>
> Doug
>
>
>
>
>
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