Are you saying that "fascistic" is not an accurate or rhetorically correct term for "McCarthyism "? Rather better to term McCarthyism a "witch hunt ", to avoid the problem of historical accuracy by using quaintness or something ?
"Witch hunt" is a sort of mythical term , so everybody knows its poetry when you say "witch hunt". " That's it, with "witch hunt" it's poetic license, free of strictures of historical accuracy. Ok isn't the UCLA situation metaphorically "fascistic" ? Charles ^^^^^^ Charles wrote: >Is "witchhunt" a euphemism for fascistic ? No. Fascistic would describe violent mobs, etc. As a rule of thumb, fascism comes into play when bourgeois democracy is no longer adequate to preserve the rule of the bourgeoisie. It is characterized by all sorts of "street" actions of the sort that Hitler introduced in the early 1920s. We got a whiff of this from Lyndon Larouche in the 1970s when his gang tried to break up a meeting for a Communist candidate in NYC. They were driven off by a defense squad. If over the next five years the USA invades Iran and has to reinstitute the draft and if the Green Party begins to elect firebrand Congressman and if coal miners in West Virginian begin to use weapons to defend organizing drives against scabs and gun-thugs and if Christian fundamentalists begin to storm into peace group or trade union meetings with the intention of breaking them up, then I think we can re-examine the issue. But in political terms, it is not useful to try to tell time with a broken watch that is always set to midnight.
