[Marxism] Fascism Today: Rock-Bottom Remainders

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> The development of the german experience is NOT mutually discreet to
> that of
> other fascisms. It is significantly different. For one, it came to power
> after winning democratic elections. For another, it originally came
> from a
> working class movement, with heavy anti-establishment subjectiveness.

We're getting confused because of the discrete/discreet variation, but I
don't think (though you're not suggesting) the NSDAP needs to be praised
(and for what it's worth, the Fascists started out with pretty plebeian
roots as well and cred from Mussolini's time in the PSI).  But the real
estate old fascist movements take up in the political conscious needs to be
reduced, as there are no exact equivalents among contemporary extreme-right
groups (even the British National Front, far more savage than Le Pen, has
other axes to grind than absolute state control) and there are rough
equivalents to fascist techniques and organizations on the genuine left;
such that leftists can get charged for messes they didn't make for once, and
such that groups that have no very clear principles and dubious tactics can
appear to be absolute defenders of freedom.  I have the Lega Nord, which
turns *Telos* on, in mind: they're against globalization, but they're also
against the globalization that's already happened.  But one could also
consider "culture-jamming" organizations, such as are all well-intentioned
and are occasionally well-considered, in such a light.

NB: Apropos of the above discussion of the Vienna Circle, it's interesting
to note that Otto Neurath was an economic minister for the *koenigliche*
side of the Austrian Soviet Republic, and the Circlers were all fairly close
to Austro-Marxism: which is perhaps as far as anyone need go, provided you
can live on sweet things *and* ground is not being taken up as described
above (such as has occurred in the US with "logical positivism" and its
successors; Carnap would be highly unscientific, and a few other choice
words, by contemporary subdisciplinary standards).

Jeff