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Exactly right. The CP has been yowling about the impending fascist menace every four years to explain why we must vote for whatever candidate the Democrats put up: "Stop The Drift Towards Fascism!" A mass movement funded from above, taking over the streets, employing highly organized physical violence under a smokescreen of socialist/populist rhetoric to destroy unions, and send anything remaining of the left to the hospital and/or prison has not yet emerged. As Proyect points out, it is unnecessary. Using the term "fascist" as a vulgar epithet has risks. Wasn't one of Aesop's Fables about "The Boy Who Cried Fascist"? T -----Original Message----- >From: Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> >Sent: Mar 10, 2014 8:21 PM >To: Thomas F Barton <thomasfbar...@earthlink.net> >Subject: Re: [Marxism] Fascism? > >On 3/10/14 8:04 PM, Charles Faulkner wrote: >> do you agree we should have a more current/flexible definition of fascism >> nearly 70 years after the fall of historical fascism? > >In the early days of Marxmail, long before I began blogging (indeed, >there was no such thing as blogging at the time), I posted a series of >articles about fascism that was prompted by fears by some that the >Buchanan campaign marked a fascist threat. If I sound a bit jaded on >these questions, it is only because I have been hearing it since 1967 >when I joined the SWP. Back then it was the Wallace campaign. Now it is >the Tea Party. None of this makes sense when ordinary bourgeois >democracy is knocking the labor movement on its ass. When the Boeing >machinists go out on strike to defy a wage freeze and use dynamite >against the cops, like German strikers did in the early 20s, then you >should begin paying attention to fascists being called in to reinforce >capitalist law and order. > > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
