Re: Buchanan a fascist?

["Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Then again, Buchanan might be considered a prot-fascist actor within a
time period not readily amenable to fascism: a character for the active
repression of insurgent labor when such measures are not needed.Tragic,
really...



Bryan Alexander                                 Department of English
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On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Bradley Mayer wrote:

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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >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.
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> >That is all there is to that.
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> Sorry for being six months behind the times, but then again the times may
> be catching up with us, at least in Louisiana...
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> Fascism implies bonapartist and rightwing elements by definition, so the
> above characterization fails to distinguish Buchananism from fascism.
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> 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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