> > Why burn books when capitalism has perfected mental viruses that can > destroy intellect long before it becomes capable of learning anything? > Why kill millions of the Other when you can just leave her to starve or > die of untreated disease?European fascism took its classic form in Germany > and Italy, nations that came late to statehood, had largely missed out on > the imperialist bonanza of the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, > and had not in modern times enjoyed the blessing of institutionalized > chattel slavery. Spain and Portugal--with more Bonapartist forms of > fascist dictatorship--had held and lost vast empires and Austria and > Hungary were relict of a failed empire.I want to suggest that the US is > different historically. What we get probably won't be fascism except in a > moral sense. IMO, while we're waiting to hear the Horst Wessel Lied, we > could get something worse.
I thought this might be a good place to post this,just in case anybody here has not read it. It pretty much blows away the argument, popular among many on the left ,that A) America could never become fascist. B)Fascism always has to look like it did in Europe, in the 1930s and 40s. That a completely different, 21st Century model of fascism, left alone a uniquely American one, could never exist. https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/07/the-anatomy-of-fascism-denial/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6333): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6333 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80455250/21656 -=-=- 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. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
