File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/current, message 9


Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 18:39:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: A fusillade towards the past


On Tue, 13 May 1997, Doug Henwood wrote:

> 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?

But fascism is not synonymous with genocide and slavery. Fascism is
authoritarian chauvinist capitalism. There were extreme racist forms of
nationalist-corporatist systems that engaged in genocide (e.g., Nazi
Germany and Utashi Croatia), but this is not the *modus operandi* of
fascism proper. The U.S. is fascist to the degree that it is nationalist-
corporatist, not because they have engaged in imperialism or genocide.
This is mixing apples and oranges. 

The question of whether Zionism is fascist is whether Zionism is a
nationalist-corporatist ideology and social movement. 

Andrew Austin




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