Louis Proyect wrote:
Any way you slice it, you don't get fascism without the threat of proletarian revolution. That might be going on somewhere else in the USA, but surely not in NYC.
Without being too post-modern, would you be willing to entertain the (remote) possibility that some people are using the term "fascism" in a different sense than yours? Moreover, under the hypothesis that the proletariat is a global class, would you be willing to accept (temporarily, as a mere exercise in human communication) that some recent events in the globe qualify as *somewhat* revolutionary in the proletarian -- or at least in the anti-imperialist -- sense (e.g. Venezuela), and that Bush's approach to asserting the U.S. imperial interests in the world may be *somewhat* analogous to the methods used by Nazis and fascists in the 1930s? Honest rhetorical questions. Julio
