Re: [Marxism] Stalinism is Fascism

[Baba Aye <baba.aye@xxxxxxxxx>]

to reduce fascism to thuggery seems rather inadequate I would say.
definitely thuggery is an element of fascist tactics, but that still hardly
helps in any way, the conceptualization of what fascism is and what
distinguishes it from....Stalinism for example

2009/5/20 Guy Miller <guycarlos@xxxxxxx>

>
> All fascists are thugs but not all thugs are fascists.
>
> > Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 00:37:31 -0400
> > From: sobuadhaigh@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Marxism] Stalinism is Fascism
> > To: guycarlos@xxxxxxx
> >
> > J.M.Cloke wrote:
> >
> > > Stalinism *is* fascism....
> >
> > No it is not. Last time I checked the essential essence
> > of fascism is racism. Fascist regimes are racist regimes governing
> > in close cooperation with big business and there are fundamental
> > differences between itself and the attempt to apply communism in
> > Russia, China, etc. The industrialists of Weimar Germany did not
> > give all that money to the Nazi party because they believed Hitler
> > was a Stalinist. This is a cheap rhetorical device to collapse
> > everything
> > politically disagreeable under the single rubric of "fascism."
> > This malady flows from the "totalitarian" model so beloved
> > of high school textbooks and cold war rhetoric. Show me a
> > regime, and a time period, that supposedly achieved the degree
> > of "total" control of its population as assumed by those that
> > belabor this term.
> >
> >
> >
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