Date: Fri, 1 Mar 96 11:30:23 GMT
From: Adam Rose <adam-AT-pmel.com>
Subject: Re: buchanan



Louis asks :

> 
> Is the Ku Klux Klan fascist?
> 

Yes.

I heard Maya Angelou describe how the KKK where she grew up didn't
bother to wear hoods - they weren't afraid of being recognised.

Somewhere else I read the KKK described as "the middle class on horseback".

> Are the militias fascist?

Yes. But they're also just a little bit MAD.
I don't think they are as much of a threat as an urban movement.


Louis also says :

> Finally, fascists don't swing back and forth between normal bourgeois 
> politics and direct action. 

Yes they do.

In Britain the BNP went for a "respectable" strategy.

The ANL physically confronted them as far as possible.
This forced them to bring their seig heiling stormtroopers out
into the open ( they'd always been there of course, beating
up Asians wherever they were standing candidates in elections ).

The ANL was successful. Derek Beacon lost his place on the council - there
was no French style break through.  This pushed the BNP into a more "terrorist"
strategy - attacking left wing book shops, left wing individuals,
stabbings etc. They no longer made such an effort to hide their links
with Combat 18 ( = AH = Adolf Hitler ). It's slightly horrifying to say it,
but this was a sign of the ANL's success.

For the moment, the BNP seems pretty demoralised and isn't doing either
"normal bourgeois politics" or "direct action", although this could easily
change.

Adam.

Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK


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