Charles Brown Forwards: 5. Still, fascism may not completely dispense with bourgeois democracy--e.g. banning revolutionary parties or even competing bourgeois parties--depending on "historical, social and economic conditions."(Dimitrov, p. 4)
This point sticks out, and my concern in regard to this is 'the left' still tends to think... industrially, in linear time so to speak, about issues like fascism which perhaps could be more cogently analyzed as something that comes about even if it's not the 1930s in Germany, but some other time, circularly, in other forms depending on: "historical, social and economic conditions."(Dimitrov, p. 4)". This: 7. The difference between bourgeois democracy and fascism is a matter of quantitative changes leading to a qualitative change. The qualitative differences are relevant to us in terms of their effect on our policies towards non-proletarian classes. "The accession to power of fascism is not an ordinary succession of one bourgeois government by another, but a substitution of one state form of class domination of the bourgeoisie--bourgeois democracy--by another form--open terrorist dictatorship. ... is the change I see occuring when the U.S. Fish & Game Service "came for the gull", so to speak... The hundred and fifty year old gull in a glass case in a Maine restaurant. The owner of the restaurant is not a 'prole', she is a business owner, merchant class. ..." But it is a mistake, no less serious and dangerous, to underrate the importance of, for the establishment of fascist dictatorship, of the reactionary measures of the bourgeoisie at present increasingly developing in bourgeois-democratic countries--measures which suppress the democratic liberties of the working people..." Like rounding up thousands of 'fleeing felons' just the other day. Parole violators actually, and a large percentage of them are likely to be workers, or else the parole boards would have rounded them up for that a long time ago, or perhaps that's the only reason their paroles are violated and they are being essentially "hunted" ... because they can't find work. Just a perverse thought. Leigh
