Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: friendly fascism for the 21st ce...

[Ralph Dumain]

I may have brought this up before, but I have long entertained the 
notion of the U.S. South as the first fascist state.

Incidentally, there's a new book out on the post-Reconstruction 
South, author was on Tavis Smiley.  The title might be WORSE THAN SLAVERY.

At 02:38 PM 6/8/2008, Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
>On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:18:17 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Good stuff and right on the money.
> >
> > The political basis of reaction - fascism, has always been
> > historically in
> > the South.
> >
> > We tend to write as if we forget the right to work laws, Taft
> > Hartley and
> > how Hayes Tilden - 1876, altered our history.
> >
> > Good stuff.
> >
> >
> >
>
>We might also point out how
>for many years the Southern
>viewpoint dominated US historiography
>concerning the Civil War, Reconstruction,
>and the Grant Administration.  For
>years, US history books portrayed
>Reconstruction as a "terrible injustice"
>done to the defeated South, despite
>the benefits it brought to the freedmen
>and for that matter to the poor whites.
>Similarly, President Grant was long
>villified too.  He was portrayed as
>a drunkard and an incompetent
>president who presided over
>an extremely corrupt administration.
>Actually, he was hated because
>he sought to use Federal power
>to enforce Reconstruction and
>protect the rights of the freedmen.
>Also, he was derided for his
>Indian policy - Grant believing
>in the radical proposition
>that the US government should
>abide by the terms of the treaties
>that it had entered into with
>the Indian nations.   All the various
>economic interests that sought to
>open up the Indian lands to
>white settlement and "development"
>would have none of this.
>
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: friendly fascism for the 21st ce...

[Jim Farmelant]

 
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 15:18:17 EDT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Good stuff and right on the money. 
>  
> The political basis of reaction - fascism, has always been 
> historically in  
> the South. 
>  
> We tend to write as if we forget the right to work laws, Taft 
> Hartley and  
> how Hayes Tilden - 1876, altered our history.
>  
> Good stuff. 
>  
> 
> 

We might also point out how
for many years the Southern
viewpoint dominated US historiography
concerning the Civil War, Reconstruction,
and the Grant Administration.  For
years, US history books portrayed
Reconstruction as a "terrible injustice"
done to the defeated South, despite
the benefits it brought to the freedmen
and for that matter to the poor whites.
Similarly, President Grant was long
villified too.  He was portrayed as
a drunkard and an incompetent
president who presided over
an extremely corrupt administration.
Actually, he was hated because
he sought to use Federal power
to enforce Reconstruction and
protect the rights of the freedmen.
Also, he was derided for his
Indian policy - Grant believing
in the radical proposition
that the US government should
abide by the terms of the treaties
that it had entered into with
the Indian nations.   All the various
economic interests that sought to
open up the Indian lands to
white settlement and "development"
would have none of this.

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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: friendly fascism for the 21st ce...

[Waistline2]

Good stuff and right on the money. 
 
The political basis of reaction - fascism, has always been historically in  
the South. 
 
We tend to write as if we forget the right to work laws, Taft Hartley and  
how Hayes Tilden - 1876, altered our history.
 
Good stuff. 
 



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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [marxistphilosophy] Re: friendly fascism for the 21st century

[Jim Farmelant]

On Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:06:17 - "rtvinwfny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
> --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralph Dumain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >
>
Toward
> 
> > Friendly Fascism? American Conservatism in the 21st Century
> > Milan Zafirovski
> > Quarterly Journal of Ideology, Volume 29, 2006, Numbers 1 & 2
> >
> 
>As a marxist materialist, I find most philosophical discussions 
> of
> political subjects to be idealist (in the philosophical sense) and
> superficial. I miss the lack of discussion of material and economic
> factors in the rise of "friendly fascism".  E.g., one of the 
> reasons
> for the rise of the South in the U.S. was the fact that the labor 
> laws
> were very capitalist-friendly. Back in 1961, I was a scientist
> transferred down south to help build and run a specialty technical
> glass factory.  We were paying some of the highest wages in the 
> area,
> but they were abysmally low. The economy was largely agriculturally
> based, with textile sweatshops and tobacco factories.  To keep 
> wages
> low, the capitalists  (industrial and landowning) had to keep most 
> of
> the people ignorant and uneducated.  Religion was a very useful 
> tool
> for that.  However, it was not what I would call "religious 
> fascism";
> the capitalists, not the religious leaders, were clearly in control. 

We shouldn't also forget that a major part of the low-wage
strategy of economic development that has been followed
in the South since the early 20th century has been a
forthright antiunion policy.  Most of the Southern
states passed so-called "right to work" laws to
make it harder for unions to organize there.
And whenever unions attempted to organize
industries within a particular region, the
local economic and political elites would
quickly put together antiunion campaigns.
One of the most popular tactics used for
fending off unions was the deliberate
use of racism and racist appeals to
divide workers. 

> 
> Quite different from some fundamentalist religious state.
>Another, historical factor, is the military defeat of the South 
> in
> the Civil War, and the longing of the capitalists and landowners to
> "correct" that "great wrong".  This led to a society that glorified
> the military.  Like Germany's reaction in the 1930's to their 
> defeat
> in the First World War.  So as we enter a period in the evolution 
> of
> capitalism in the U.S. where the military becomes very important, 
> the
> South can get greater influence because they enthusiastically 
> support
> the expansion of the military.  But the increase of military bases
> and, more important, the growth of military industries, is slowly
> opening up the society and thereby gradually liberalizing it.

Also, I think we need to look at what happened
in the South during Reconstruction and why
Reconstruction was allowed to fail.  One of
the most notable achievements of the Reconstruction
era was the enfranchisement of the freedmen, and
the formation of populist-leaning state and
local governments under the auspices of
the Republican Party which were able to draw support
from both the freedmen and the poor whites.
These state and local governments tended to
pursue progressive policies like building
roads and hospitals and establishing
public schools.  Howevery, by 
the early 1870s, Northern capitalists
started to become disenchanted
with these political trends in the
South. They were now willing
to embrace the defeated planter
class as junior partners in the
governance of the country.
Events in Europe like the Paris
Commune of 1871, which received
great publicity in the US, contributed
to this unease.  The feeling in
US ruling circles was that it
was dangerous to permit
the freedmen and poor whites
to share in the governance
of the Southern states.  Calls
for and end to Reconstruction
soon became widespread,
not withstanding the fact that
in much of the South, Reconstruction
had never really been permitted to
get off the ground in the first place.
The Hayes-Tilden presidential
election of 1876 brought things
to a head,
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election%2C_1876
)
with a deal being struck by which the
disputed votes in the Electoral College
were granted to the Republican
candidate, Samuel Hayes, in return
for the withdrawl of Federal troops
from the South, and thus the
ending of Rconstruction.  The
freedmen were soon disenfranchised
and white surpremacy was restored.

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