Re: AUT: Fascism

[Floyce White <anti_property@xxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting analysis.  I want to see what others think
about it.

I've been defining "fascism" as mass mobilization for
the immediate achievement of anti-worker goals.  The
urgency is in response to workers' mobilizations for
pro-worker goals, and usually takes the form of
extremely violent suppression of workers'
organizations.  Fascism is highly unstable since any
broad, multi-class alliance includes many
working-class people, who will raise their demands as
part of their mass mobilization.  Fascists usually
demobilize themselves into the usual state
institutions such as the police, army, and such, as
victory in the internal struggle against their
working-class elements.

Since fascists want to subsume themselves into state
institutions, preservation of the
system--conservatism--is part of their ideology.
Conservative nationalism is national patriotism, and
fascists display no end of it.  Fascism, like
socialism, fails to be an independent pro-capitalist
position since it came long after the development of
liberalism and conservatism, and leans heavily upon them.

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