Greetings Economists, mdriscoll writes, Gramsci and Trotsky were analyzing fascism at the time it occurred, in 20s and 30s Germany and Italy. What they said indicates that they linked the essence of fascism with exactly that, "the activity which the bourgeois class carries out to halt the proletarian class on its path." My point is that what we have now is not fascism, incipient or otherwise. There is no struggle between bourgeois and prolatariat that threatens the hegemony of capital. Another terminology and another analysis is called for and many thoughtful people are doing just that, without invoking fascism.
Doyle, I think we agree though your first note was not clear enough to me compared to this comment above. However, Charles Brown on this list and elsewhere has often written about how Fascist the times are. And I think the point is not a movement like fascism but that the suffering people have is fascist invoking. That emotional reference people resort to in invoke has a purpose as well to sketch suffering that the masses experience and worth taking an honest note of. Politically though I agree with your statement above. thanks, Doyle
