Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 22:03:05 -0800
From: iwp.ilo-AT-ix.netcom.com (CEP )
Subject: Re: Buchanan: right-wing populist?


>	5) Finally, there are these important historical-political 
>considerations to place atop the structural-economic items outlined 
>here: a) the absence of a mass working class political party in the 
>U.S.; b) since the collapse of the Stalinist regimes we have been in a 

>period of *political transition* from the frozen class relations of 
the 
>"cold war" to what will be an increasing class polarization due to 
1)-4) 
>above, one that will feature proto-revolutionary mobilizations of the 
>working class on the one hand, and proto-fascist movements (either 
legal 
>or extra-legal, it does not matter here at this level of analysis), on 

>the other.

    Carlos:

    I would like to suggest to your, otherwise excelent annalysis, two
    additional aspects: a) The dissappearance of the "evil empire" made
    bourgeois democracy both vulnerable because its continuos           
    restrictions without the "dangers from without" and unnecessary
    as a tactical ally against "the common enemy" of the intrinsic      
    forces of reaction from within and b) In the United States we are
    going into a new century in which people of color will be the
    majority of the population and will end, one way or another, the
    rule of the white race and this alone will test the limits of
    bourgeois democracy and classical bourgeois politics.

    Comradely,
    Carlos





>
>	In Buchananism we do not see a simple repetition of the pattern 
>of rightwing populism - that is more a characteristic of the Perot 
>phenomenon. Let's examine some of the elements of Buchananism, 
beginning 
>with a distinction between the personage, Buchanan, and *Buchananism*. 

>The failure to make this distinction clear has been the source of some 

>confusion in the discussion of fascism. 
>
>(To be continued....)
>
>		-Brad Mayer
>
>PS: Rakesh, what's a "dijerdoo"? Looking forward to the posts you 
>mentioned.
>
>
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