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In a message dated 12/14/2004 5:17:20 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Right. Scapegoating is always part of fascism. Comment
We are perhaps in the seventh decade of what has been a profound rejection of Christianity amongst a significant section of the African American population in favor of Islam and its various offshoots, although stands of this movement existed during slavery and its aftermath. The rise and consolidation of the Nation of Islam has been its most visible organizational _expression_ in the post WW II period, but this shift in spiritual striving is not limited to the Nation.
The concentration of "Arabs" in Detroit and the Toledo area (and though out California) is going to make it extremely difficult to isolate them as the "outsider in our midst," especially in the areas of their high concentration. There is a certain intermingling of "Arabs" and blacks with a growing population of children in common. A tremendous section of the black population have "Arab" names.
It seems that "black and white unite" - on any basis, is a slogan that cannot maintain itself in today's political environment because blacks are long ago removed from southern agriculture and are an intimate part of the working class proper.
Yet, there is a certain political move underway to balkanize the population. This is being played out in Detroit in a complex manner involving Powernomics or what is balkanization in the international arena. The political opposition to Powernomics is another complexity involving the various Arab small and not so small businessmen, directly challenged by a program of "black economic development" advanced by the African American henchmen of the imperial bourgeoisie.
If carried to its conclusion the politics of Powernomics is to expel the various "Arab" businesspersons from area of high African American concentration, while opposing "white" domination as the fundamental basis of "unity."
The author of this policy is Claud Anderson. The blueprint was formulated in his mid 1990s book "Black Labor-White Wealth." Here is the voice of the African American bourgeoisie seeking to rally the most backwards sections of the population to their economic cause.
An anti-Islamic backlash is going to run into a major roadblock amongst the most poverty stricken section of the population, many who gravitate towards Islam by way of the prison system circuit.
Whether fascism as a political form of rule requires extra economic coercion in the post industrial era remains to be seen as well as the slowly growing role of prison labor. At any rate it is hard to see how fascism can even momentarily solve the issue of the falling rate of profit. Hitler's momentary power and authority in the German population was based on incessant warfare and securing colonial possessions - "French wine," "Polish hams" and "Slavic women."
A section of the population is calling for fascism on themselves to restore what they believe to be lost privileges and a "certain way of life." It is going to take much more than cops and an army to hold the people in check who are striving simply to live in decency and contribute to societies well being.
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