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On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 4:05 AM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: 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. > Understand what? You haven't explained what any of this has to do with your and Clay's farcical fascism=anti-Semitism formulations. If Trotsky or Neumann said anything similar, then they were clearly mistaken as a matter of historical fact, not my opinion. As defensive mechanisms, this recurring "but I'm a Marxist!" routine isn't terribly impressive, unless we're ranking it as a comedy routine. You could be an Orléanist, and fascism - as a point of objective history - would no more necessitate the burning of synagogues. (For how many decades, until the German invasion of Italy, was Margherita Sarfatti, aside from being one of Mussolini's many mistresses, a key figure in the Italian Fascist party? Do you think she was the only one? Pshaw. And if you, Trotsky, and Neumann aspire to redefine "fascism" in a way that excludes actual, historically-existing Fascism - well, I just can't imagine the point.) -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." ________________________________________________ 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
