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-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of D and N Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 12:21 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION,EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] fascism defined Why is it safer to say "fuck" than to say "fascism?" One of the curiosities of post-cold-war rhetoric is that we no longer have a term for those who practice ideologies antithetical to democracy. One American politician once put it this way: "The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power." Would such a radical be allowed on Sunday morning talk shows today? Probably not, even though his name was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. -Sam Smith
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