On 2/18/16 10:58 AM, Michael Meeropol wrote: > > The danger of fascism is real.
Not really. Bourgeois democracy is working quite well to maintain the status quo. Fascism arose in Germany because the workers supported parties that make Bernie Sanders look like Donald Trump by comparison. The Social Democratic governor of the state of Saxony collaborated with Communists in 1923 to seize power, a scheme that was unfortunately ill-conceived. The German bourgeoisie then began to funnel money to the Nazi party as a last resort against proletarian revolution. Today, the average worker is not interested in proletarian revolution. He or she is interested in how the NY Yankees will do, the fate of characters on shows like "Gray's Anatomy" and whether their kids can get a job in a shitty economy. The last of these worries is tied to the crisis of capitalism but hardly at the point where a bus driver or a sanitation worker begins to think in terms of challenging capitalist rule. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
