Re: [Marxism] fascism and capitalism

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From:                   Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>
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Date sent:              Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:52:51 -0500
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Subject:                Re: [Marxism] fascism and capitalism

> If you make fascism cover everything, then the word is meaningless: it
> adds nothing to a description. Or you see only open repression and get
> destroyed by less open repression.
> 
> Carrol
> 

Yes, of course. We may choose another term. But what I want to mean 
is, roughly, that under the conditions of monopoly capital and 
imperialism, the ruling class splits in two and has to exert an ever 
increasing control and repression _ against itself_, not just against 
the exploited or oppressed classes. The high degree of regimentation 
that this implies today seems to me to be a feature of core-nation 
capitalism (sorry for shorthand, if someone puts it better and 
differently I don't worry). 

Independent personalities were an adamant expression of bourgeois 
culture during the early stages of the mode of production. Today, the 
slightest degree of true independence puts the bourgeois intellectual 
(if such a thing still exists) out of the range of the radar, turns 
her or him into a "nonperson" or a marginalized "outsider".

This new condition of existence for the RULING class, this 
militarization of thought, seems to me to be pervasive and quite 
meaningful. Again, I suggest that this depends on the necessities of 
monopoly-dominated economies and tends to be a general feature of a 
senile capitalism such as we are living through.

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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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