Re: [Marxism] Re: The Anatomy of Fascism

[DLVinvest@xxxxxx]

In a message dated 5/4/04 6:01:51 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
edgeorge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: 
> The specific difficulty that has now arisen as a consequence of this
> ahistoric and deconcretised way of looking at things is the abstract
> view of 'nationalism' on which it is based. For the nationalism of
> Perón, for example, and the nationalism of Franco, are not the same.
> Argentina was, and is, in the imperialist system, an oppressed country.
> Spain, wasn't, and isn't. The distinction between the nationalism of an
> oppressed nation and the nationalism of an oppressor nation is so
> fundamental that it is embarrassing to have to point it out.
> 
agreed, in part, but you have thereby also "deconcretised" and abstracted and 
schematically applied the label of "oppressed" to justify the "good" (useful, 
to the proletariat?) nationalism of Peron as opposed to the "bad" corporatist 
version of Franco. I'm not sure that gets us any closer to an understanding 
of the real similarities and differences in the respective responses of those 
corporatist regimes to the independent, class-conscious organization of the 
workingclass as a revolutionary threat to the rule of capital. That's another 
problem with "distinctions" that are "embarrassing to have to point out."
Douglas L. Vaughan, Jr.
Investigations
for Print, Film & Electronic Media
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