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On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 22:16:50 -0500 Carrol Cox <_cb...@ilstu.edu_ (mailto:cb...@ilstu.edu) > wrote: I don't think the u.s. elites (or the u.s. military) is at all ready to reject that framework. ******** And why should they, as long as it can be bent to accommodate whatever they want to do? M Comment Well, the world cannot be bent to accommodate whatever they want to do. Bourgeois property has hit this tiny rock called "revolution in the means of production." The world today is different from calling Nixon a fascist. I do not know what else to call a man - Nixon, who says on public television that the norms of bourgeois legality do not have to be adhered to by the President because he is the President, other than a freaking fascist. I apparently have a very different view of citizens nights. The President is still a citizen. Nixon should have been put in jail. I hated it when Ford pardoned him. Nixon dropped bombs on people and threatened to drive Vietnam back to the stone age because of their desire to implement the mandate of our revolution of 1776: National Liberation. II. The multinational state of the United States and America is huge covering a territory about the size of China. In real time and as real life experience several political jurisdictions called "states" in the American lexicon, can go fascists with the bulk of the American state oscillating between a reactionary bourgeois democracy and countrywide state fascism. This in fact has happened. Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and Louisiana for example, remained fascist states for a very long time in our post Civil War-post Reconstruction Era history. This did not mean New York state was fascist. On the other hand it did mean that large area of the North and Midwest were governed on the basis of a reactionary bourgeois democracy but not necessarily an entire state and all areas of the state. In reverse the entire multinational state system could shift markedly to an open fascist form of rule with several political jurisdictions resisting "the federal authority," manifest as a fascist political state. Today, everything is in place for a fascist seizure of power. Based on the work of the Clinton years, the Bush administration battled to accumulate the legal power to take over the government, and to declare unitary rule by the executive. We saw just the tip of the iceberg - the U.S. Attorney firings, the various "signing statements," Bush thumbing his nose at the Congress by pushing the limits of executive privilege, the stacking of the Supreme Court with those who support the "unitary executive," and statements that allows martial law to be declared and the government to be taken over in case of a some sort of crisis. The only question is which of the bourgeois forces will wield this weapon, and when, and the character, extent and strength of their support and, on the other hand, the organization and consciousness of the resistance to their actions. "They" cannot accommodate whatever they want. Revolution in the means of production makes such accommodation impossible. 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
