[Marxism] Doug Henwood on fascists in the military (from PEN-L)

[Jon Flanders]

My point was that the racial structure of the miltary
would certainly make a Praetorian Guard possible and
capable of a coup.

Jon Flanders


On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 04:16 +0100, Lajany Otum wrote:
> --- Jon Flanders <jonflanders at jflan.net> wrote:
> > 
> > How big a Praetorian Guard would be needed to make a
> > military coup in the US?
> > 
> 
> Like the proverbial number of angels on the head of a
> pin, whether we speculate that the answer's a
> thousand, ten thousand,  or a hundred thousand, what
> difference would it make? On its own terms, the
> present system of bourgeois rule is functioning quite
> well enough -- as evidenced by the political impotence
> of the left, and its obsession over scholastic
> questions. 
> Lajany Otum
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