A more complete citation, for those interested.
Friendly fascism :the new face of
power in America
by Gross, Bertram Myron
Publisher
Boston :South End Press,[1982]
Physical
xxvii, 410 p. ;23 cm.
ISBN
0896081494
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: March 26, 2001 8:58 AM
To: Cordell, Arthur: ECOM
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Is government becoming irrelevant?
At 07:50 26/03/01 -0500, you wrote:
>snip, snip,....
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>Ed Weick
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>I would agree with Keith that all of this is taking us somewhere, but I
>would very much like to know where.
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>Anybody recall the term "friendly fascism"???
>
>Arthur Cordell
In suggesting that our present sort of electoral "democracy" is heading
towards self-destruction and will be replaced by another specialist-forum
type of government -- the early signs of which we can already discern -- I
do not think we need to be too apprehensive. Like Ed Weick I am also
reasonably optimistic.
"Friendly fascism"? Not a chance of this or any other type of totalitarian
form of government. The genie of information/communication (i/c) is now
well and truly out of the bottle. Besides being a positive catalyst for
institutional change, there is also the huge negative potentiality of i/c
for action against government (in the developed world) if it ever reverted
to repression. If anything, and if necessary, the potentiality of the
latter could grow more steeply than the former -- but I don't think it
would ever need to come to that.
Keith Hudson
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