Re: Buchanan a fascist?

[concrete@xxxxxxxxxx (Bradley Mayer)]

>From Louis N Proyect:

>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.

Sorry for being six months behind the times, but then again the times may
be catching up with us, at least in Louisiana...

Fascism implies bonapartist and rightwing elements by definition, so the
above characterization fails to distinguish Buchananism from fascism.

I would propose that Buchanan is a transitional "democratic" fascist - a
fascist transitionally deploying (or being deployed beyond his own
ideological consciousness of himself) a "democratic
(counter)revolutionary" tactic.  All smart European neofascists (Fini,
etc.), deploy this tactic today, even "denouncing Hitler".  Also, note the
transition of forms between Franco, Mussolini and Hitler.
                                -Brad Mayer


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