Buchanan a fascist?

[Louis N Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Terrence on PEN-L said (forwarded by Berkeley Rosser):

>
> The recently concluded Louisiana contest between Buchanan and Gramm
> can then be interpreted as a contest between a fascist candidate and
> a bourgeois economist attempting to look like a populist.  The
> fascist won.
>

Louis: PEN-L folks haven't had the benefit of the rich discussion we have
had on the Marxism l*st. That is the only reason I can think of why
Terrence could put forward such a wrong-headed idea.

I wouldn't even attempt to correct his misconception, except to say that
it represents the thinking of many on this l*st about 6 or 7 months ago.

Buchanan is a right-wing politician with Bonapartist elements. He is best
understood in comparison not with Hitler, but with candidates of the
Populist Party of the United States as it drifted into reaction during
the period of Tom Watson's political and intellectual decline.

That is all there is to that.


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