Pertinent to European politics today, German, Italian, French, Dutch, et al., can't we say that the rightward swing there in the last few years is related to the world-historic "comupence" of capitalist colonialism and imperialism: large numbers of non-Europeans of the darker peoples emigrating to the European metropoles of their colonialist master nations ? Even the French can't help lurching to the right. Fascists are no longer "unacceptable" in Italy.
Charles ^^^^^ From: Marv Gandall <marvgand...@videotron.ca> We needed reminding of that. But all imperialists are invariably racists, though not all are fascist. It's possible in this case, too, the savage assault on a people of colour was was a consequence of the regime's imperialist pretensions , rather than a cause of it, as was the planned genocide of the Nazis against the Jews. From: <com...@flash.net> > Not so fast. Anyone remember Ethiopia? > The Italian fascists were fiercely racist against the Ethiopians. > Their savagery, use of poison gas, annihilation of villages, slaughter of > a good part of the educated population, racial segregation against the > Ethiopians, etc. were notorious. > > -- Joseph Green > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
