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On 3/14/14 6:20 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
If one cannot grasp the possibility of a party that reveres anti-Semitic forces of the past reorienting itself toward different enemies today, one is wholly incompetent to understand contemporary far-right politics.
You need to develop a class analysis, Joseph. I know that you are not a Marxist but if you are going to intervene in these discussions, you have an obligation to engage with us in Marxist terms. When we Marxists talk about fascism, it is in terms of a dynamic that is unfolding in capitalist society when parliamentary democracy has exhausted itself and the ruling class throws its weight behind violent groups whose ideology is a mixture of super-nationalism and themes lifted from the socialist movement. Mussolini, for example, was a socialist deputy at one time. His "corporatism" was a distorted version of leftist concepts but robbed of the idea of class conflict.
There are 1500 subscribers on Marxmail and I imagine that most of them understand this from having read Trotsky or Marxist scholars such as Franz Neumann. You have to make an effort to catch up on the abc's of Marxism or else you will distract us from the serious discussion that is necessary.
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