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Anemic turnout - in the low hundreds - for pro-Trump rallies: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/us/trump-rallies.html On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Trump in Perspective: Fascism or Just More Barbarism? > > http://www.thenorthstar.info/?p=13187 > > > My comment on the article. > ken h > > > While fascists have taken heart form the Trump victory, I agree with the > author that we are not at the point of fascism. > My understanding of fascism is that it is a mass movement and it has the > capacity to engage in street combat. The relationship of forces has not > gone that far, as yet. > > During the wonderful airport demonstrations I caught a fragment on cable > TV that suggested Trump supporters were on their way to the Los Angeles > airport. I heard no more about that. A strong fascist movement would have > been able to mobilize anti-immigrant demonstrations at the airports, even > going so far as to attack the pro-immigrant demonstrations. > > Again and again, since the inauguration, we have seen people in the > street. The Women's March, the Yemeni bodega owners, the Day(s) Without > Immigrants. > No doubt there were fascists that would have wanted to attack these > demonstrations. But they did not have the forces. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/fred.r.murphy%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
