Re: Forwarded from Anthony (on fascism)

[Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Louis Proyect wrote (from Anthony)

> >All fascist movements, are not mass movements. But all fascist >movements
> >are petty bourgeois, even when the majority of their members are >drawn from
> >the working class.
>
>

1) Although I know Marx's definition, can somebody explain to me the meaning of
_petty bourgeoisie

a) in the context of periphery/semi-periphery of the world system? (for example,
the Kemalist cadre, the bonapartist founders of the nationalist/bourgeois regime
in Turkey, was composed of military officers, not petty bourgeois intellectuals
in the strict technical sense of the term. They never drew the majority of their
members from the working class, but from upper middle bourgeoisie)

b) in the context of Europe (wasn't the core class composition of German fascism
upper middle class (big business)?)

Isn't a petty bourgeois a transitory term between "bourgeoisie" and "working
class"? What is my class position, for example, when I chat on line with Marxist
revolutionaries, discuss women's liberation with Turkish leftists, and write my
doctoral proposal in the mean time? Am I a petty bourgeois? It seems I am a
_middle class_ par excellence, not a "petty"

"Petty bourgeois" is an oxymoron, like  "social democracy/ democrat", me
thinks..


comradely,


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Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx
PhD Student
Department of Political Science
SUNY at Albany
Nelson A. Rockefeller College
135 Western Ave.; Milne 102
Albany, NY 12222



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