On 11/2/06, Charles Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> The world today can't be understood by reading "State and Revolution" or
"The Civil War in France." You read those texts mainly to understand early
20th-century Russia or late 19th-century France.
^^^^
CB; Similarly, we can't be prepared to defend against potential danger of
open terrorist rule by the U.S. bourgeois state by dogmatically demanding
that "there can't arise fascism" unless the characteristics "a, b, and c"
from the 1920's and 30's Europe are present here today.
I'd call the United States today a liberal plutocracy*, which is
slipping into an illiberal plutocracy, due to its war on crime and
imperialism.
* It's a plutocracy, not a democracy, for a majority do not rule here
and, in a majority of elections (which are like markets with
extraordinarily high costs of entry), candidates who spend more money
than opponents win.
--
Yoshie
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