On 8/5/2011 1:34 PM, michael perelman wrote: I don't think that the Tea Party is necessarily racist or fascist, [clip]
Carrol: "Fascism" was a specific political current in inter-war European states; the word should be dropped from left vocabutlary because its use (a) is usually connected to a puerile analgy to 1930s Germany, on the basis of which we should all give up our politics and join the DP, and (b) dangerously obscures the tremendous repressive capacity of capitalist democracy. Moreover, it is really obscurantist to suggest that a racist practice or ideology is unqique to fascism. The Tea Party of course is not fascist but it is 100% racist, and has no other reason for existing. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
