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In a message dated 6/20/2010 10:09:42 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, _markala...@gmail.com_ (mailto:markala...@gmail.com) writes: >> Fascism's not about the cultural attributes which fascinate Michael, but about raw political power. People waving teabags and saying mean things because they heard them on television does not make them fascist. People repeating St. Paul on women doesn't make them fascists. << Comment I agree. These folks tend to be reactionary, meaning voicing an ideology seeking a return to a past that never really existed. Or worse, seeking the restoration of a past that really did exist. No . . . real fascists never seek a return to the past, even when their ideology is cloaked in cultural symbols of the past. In the American South the fascist movement overthrowing the established bourgeois democratic governments did so with a plan to restructure the future and reconstitute a section of a dead class based of a different form of private property. And that is what they did. ************ >> When real fascism rears its head, we won't have to have a debate on an email list about it. << ML Comment When it rears its head? It has already arisen. George W. was a fascist. Plenty of fascists are lodged within and through the entire state system, in government, church, civic organizations and heading up corporations. One can have a fascist President or for that matter a fascist Supreme Court - which it increasingly is, without and before the emergence of the fascist political state. The fascist movement has not yet reached political coherence with one voice or it zenith, which is the fascist political state. The source - origin, of the fascist movement is from within the state itself. In this sense "they are always there." ******* WL. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
