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 --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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