Re: Snitches on the "Left"

[dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx (Doug Henwood)]

At 3:53 PM 4/15/96, Louis N Proyect wrote:

>On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>
>> Further, as any Trotskyist schoolkid knows, an essential prerequisite for
>> fascism is a failure and/or betrayal by a putatively left party. Clinton
>> fits that bill nicely. Would the Republicans have won Congress in 1994 if
>> it weren't for popular revulsion against Clinton?
>>
>
>Louis: By this criteria, we should have had fascism in the wake of Lyndon
>Johnson and James Earl Carter as well.

Don't be so literal, Lou. Johnson was succeeded by Nixon, and Carter by
Reagan - both palpable shifts to the right, lubricated by "liberal"
failures.

Doug

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