CB: What name shall we use for the likely response to one, two or three more "9/11"'s ?
How can I answer hypothetical questions? In any case, fascism is the ultimate weapon against the ruling class's domestic adversary, not foreign ones. The IRA actually carried out far more "9/11's" than al Qaeda but the British ruling class did not resort to fascism.
( Yea, I know this is the "paranoid style of politics", or some horseshit like that. Yea , right)
Charles, you have been going on about the immanent fascist threat for 10 years now on the Internet and I still see no qualitative advance toward a totalitarian state. Fascism is not about selective repression. It is a generalized assault on all democratic rights, the jailing and mass murder of leftists, the breaking of the trade unions, etc. In the current dormant stage of the class struggle in the USA when a major union (Teamsters) flirts with the Republicans, fascism would be like using chemotherapy on a pimple.
