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>> I don't know if we're on the same page on this at all, but I see fascism as a phenomenon that's mostly remained foreign to USAmerica, to this day. We had an indigenous American Far-Right movement, an ideology based on the supremely of one race over others, long before Mussolini and Hitler. More importantly, we've never had a situation where our bourgeoisie has been threatened enough by a revolutionary proletariat to have any need for fascism. We've had sympathies among the elite, and sympathies among the most creatively ideological racists for fascism, but never really a truly, substantial fascist movement. Allegations that, say, the Tea Parties are fascist are delusional. To reiterate: our far-right is indigenous, not derived from the fascist movement in Europe. << Comment Whether or not Trotsky had political connections with German fascism or not is irrelevant to the practical stirrings of our proletariat. Let’s leave the issue of Trotsky to the side as irrelevant. Interestingly you mention the IWW and I was scheduled to speak at their May Day forum in Michigan, which was rained out. The IWW was and remains the most noble of our indigenousness anarcho syndicalist movements. I have a soft spot for the historic political syndicalism. Marxism can and will merge - rather than coexist in an uneasy alliance, with the historic anarcho syndicalist movement as the material logic and motion of transition from industrial unionism to a post industrial form of workers combinations. Ideological syndicalism is another matter, precisely because it is ideology. The economic legs of the anarcho syndicalist movement has been kicked from up under them by the advance of history as the revolution in the means of production. I am deeply aware of the traditional presentation of political fascism and what constitutes a fascist movement and fascism in power. The worlds first fascist movement of arose in America and overthrew a legal bourgeois democratic government during the period we call the “over throw of Reconstruction. ” A previous generation calls this the racist movement. Fortunately, I am not of that generation and I call it like I see it . . . fascism. Each individual possess their own narrative. No matter how one defines political fascism and fascism in power, most within Marxism would agree we are speaking of a substitution of a bourgeois state form of rule - Republicanism or bourgeois democracy, for another form of rule, an open - public, terrorist dictatorship. Political fascism as a movement and fascism in power has its origin in America and not Europe. American fascism did not assume a corporate form as in Italy or a military form as in Germany. What characterized American fascism as the overthrow of legal Republican forms of government in the South was illegal and extra legal violence. In the American ideology this was called “government on horseback” and “lynch rope justice.” Perhaps a re-examination of Southern history will be useful. WL. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
