`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
> [Original Message] > From: Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 11/22/2005 5:19:19 AM > Subject: [PEN-L] fascism > Citing Trotsky and Gramsci one is saying that somehow the bourgeoisie will > go easy on proletariat, and not institute fascism domestically in the U.S. , > because the proletariat is not rising up in the U.S. in 2005. As if the > bourgeoisie would only institute fascism as a last ditch measure against a > proletariat about to take power. You don't know the viciousness of the > bourgeoisie , if you are relying on their not having domestic fascism > because the proletariat is weak relative to its strength in Europe in the > 20's and 30's. The bourgeoisie are quite capable of kicking the proletariat > when it is down. Fighting dirty. Dirtier than even you seem to imagine. > Waging an unfair fight.
