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Einde O'Callaghan:
for providing extra information. However I still think
that this means a lurch to the nationalist right even if
the party as such can't be described as far right - the
very fact that it's a racist party and has a fascist wing
makes it very suspect to me.
Forgot to mention in the previous mail that I wouldn't call the TF far
right wing fascist. Modern racists (as opposed to old skool race
hierachy racists) would be more accurate in my opinion. Depends of
course on your definition of fascism whether that is a good label as
well, but personally I'm inclined to see fascism more in classical
terms, i.e. hostility towards bourgeois democratic institutions because
some sector of society (most often the working class) that is seen to be
splitting the people and/or threatening the common good (most often
the accumulation of capital) has gained too much influence through those
institutions.
The TF right-wingers have no problem with bourgeois democracy, as in
these election it has served their purpose far better than that of the
left; the SDP got its worst result since the second world war (19,1%)
and the Left Alliance vote fell almost a percentage point too (to 8,1%).
Whether the TF far righters can *develop* into fascism or not... well
that's of course possible, but then again that's possible for *any*
bourgeois party that accepts that in order to keep things going you have
to make sure that capital accumulation can continue.
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jjonas @ nic.fi
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