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Carrol Cox


On that assumption, in two or three years masses of people will be
wanting forms of organization through which they can express their
(understatement) concerns, and if  _we_ (howver defined) cannot provide
those forms of organization, rightist leadership will be there to
provide it. I wish there was a shorter and pithier term for
"authoritarianism." Fascism is no more danger than is royalism, but a
severe crisis without a strong mass left will create for the 21st
century some new form of authoritarianism which will be as destructive
for us as fascism was for the 20th century.

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CB: In the US , we can be more specific. We might face the threat of
another or renewed Reaganism.  Or better yet, another Bushism. Any
future USA "authoritarianism" is most likely to move in specific ways
that the Reagnites moved towards "authoritarianism" ,and then the
ultimate reach of Reaganism in a world without the Soviet Union,
Bushism. This is because Bushism was based in the same American
national, political culture that America will still have in two or
three years. It is the direction "authoritarianism" takes in American
culture of this time in history.

Authoritarianism is unnecessarily vague, given what we know. It is
obvious that in our concrete circumstances, the threat, if any,  is a
revival of Reaganism and Bushism,  not  some vague new
authoritarianism like Athena jumping fully grown out of the head of
Zeus.

We can even be specific about who the "rightest leadership" would be:
Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and the gang. There aren't
some hidden unknowns who the American people will suddenly start
following en masse in two or three years

This defines an activist task for leftists here. Undertake activities
that stop any revival of Reaganism/Bushism
.
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