Thanks, Tony. Too bad we weren't sitting down over coffee where we could discuss at greater length our differences and determine more precisely whether they are nuances or represent two quite different views of how to fight the Trump administration. My impression is that they wouldn't much affect practice, except insofar as you might rally opposition against Trump's personal corruption while I would focus on the threat his administration posed to the historic hard-won democratic rights and social gains of the US's diverse working class.
As to Bonapartism as precursor to fascism, you draw a sharp contrast between Louis Napoleon's repressive measures and Nazi Germany. I agree the Nazis were a particularly vicious form of race-based fascism which should be distinguished from his regime. A more exact parallel would be the "milder" outright fascist or conservative authoritarian regimes of Mussolini, Franco Salazar, Horthy etc. where the dictator had powers Trump *can only dream of* - among other things, abolition of legislative and judicial oversight and the rotating two party governing system; banning of independent trade unions, political parties, and media; imprisonment, exile, or worse of Communist and other left-wing militants; and subordination of the bourgeoisie to the dictates of state policy rather than market forces. Wouldn't you agree that others now have a pretty good idea of where each of us stands? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#42759): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/42759 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/120549500/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
