[Pen-l] Re: "fascism" [was: Socialism Gaining Ground in America]

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> ... FAscism was
> one species of authoritarianism. There are other species (some we
> haven't experienced yet, and some of which may be _worse_ than fascism.
> The fundamental reason many cling to the label "fascism" is in order to
> legitimize subordination to the Democratic Party.

it's also a symptom of either/or thinking, with no gradations between
the extremes. Either we have democracy or we have fascism. Either it's
a loving affair or it's rape (with no place for seduction in the
schema, except as a kind of rape).
-- 
Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own
way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
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