On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Of course, fascism was/is just one species of the very large genus of > authoritarian regimes. Campaigning for Lesser Evils or becoming hysterical > over the possible election of Trump is a weak way to respond to the > peculiarly u.s. version of authoritarianism. After all, the Obama > Administration has _institutionalized_ the ad hoc attacks on freedom of the > Bush administration! Seriously, Trump, not Clinton, may well be the lesser > evil. > There is indeed a very good case to be made that Trump is more progressive than Clinton in everything except rhetoric. But the rest of the above is a non-sequitur, part of this silly campaign to deliberately harm working class interests in elections. http://www.racplus.com/news/trump-would-tax-carrier-for-mexico-move/10002948.fullarticle ------------------------------snip According to Reuters <http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-utx-idUSMTZSAPEC2EIWOEVW>, Trump said: ”I’m going to tell them, ’Now I’m going to get consensus from Congress and we’re going to tax you,’” Trump said. “‘So stay where you are [in Mexico] or build in the United States.’ Because we are killing ourselves with trade pacts that are no good for us and no good for our workers.” -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Louis Proyect > Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2016 10:13 AM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] 18 -- Interview re Bernie's campaign > > 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. >
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