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100% right all along the line. Solidarity, T -----Original Message----- >From: Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> >Sent: Mar 16, 2014 10:36 AM >To: Thomas F Barton <thomasfbar...@earthlink.net> >Subject: Re: [Marxism] Ukraine > >====================================================================== >Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >====================================================================== > > >On 3/16/14 10:20 AM, turb...@aol.com wrote: >> Second, I think it's complete scholastic idiocy to argue that fascists >> aren't fascists because, unlike the fascists >> of the 30s, there is no workers' movement for them to attack. > >That's not the argument. The argument instead is that FASCISM is not a >likely outcome in any European country since WWII for reasons that are >probably not worth going into at any great length except to say that the >conditions that created Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain and Mussolini's >Italy belonged to a certain time and place. > >Furthermore, except for the Greek military coup in 1967, Europe has been >ruled by bourgeois democracies pretty exclusively. > >What we are dealing with is a kind of scare tactic whose ultimate source >is the Russian propaganda machine and its mouthpieces in the West who >have worked overtime to smear the Syrian revolution as a bunch of >Sharia-law supporting, heart-munching tools of al-Qaeda and the CIA >simultaneously. Islamofascists, Ukrainofascists, etc. > >________________________________________________ >Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu >Set your options at: >http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/thomasfbarton%40earthlink.net ________________________________________________ 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
