Re: work & politics

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 9:25 PM 1/12/96, Justin Schwartz wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Jan 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> redistribution of wealth and power in modern times, if not all of US
>> history. And all this was accomplished with full civil liberties and
>> democratic process more or less intact. With democracy like this, who needs
>> fascism?
>
>Um, bad as things have been lately, I'll take this over fascism. Wouldn't
>you? I'm Jewish, but we're both red, and here we just get fired and
>ignored. Under fascism we get liquidated. But you know this, Doug.

Well of course. But people had been saying things about how fascism is
"necessary" to discipline the working class in a way that's impossible
under democracy. My point was that you can accomplish many of the same
goals with democracy largely intact. But that's the genius of American
society, eh?

Doug

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