[R-G] Yemen Killing Based on Rules Set Out by Bush

[Ian Malcolm-Walker]

Mac

I dont want a huge fight here

The Bush regime is brutal and ruthless .. and our follows its naked self 
interest without flinching.

But Fascism is a particular form of state organisation very clearly 
described by Trotsky .. and I am not someone regularly refers to or quotes 
that comrade.

The grave danger in misusing the term is that if or when Capital resorts to 
Fascism again the word will not raise the alarm bells it needs to.

Now I agree there needs to be a debate over the class character of the Bush 
regime and its form of state organisation.  I also agree some of the steps 
it has taken make it closer to a Fascist regime that anything the US has 
seen before.

But - and a say this despite the use of Taft-Hartly against the 
Longshoremen at least two key elements seem missing.  I acknowledge that I 
say this for Europe and they may be present on the ground but unreported.

On is the smashing of organisations of the working class - not just legal 
measures but gangs going in and preventing locals etc from meeting.

The other is any conscious mobililisation of elements of the lumpenproletariat.

Nonetheless we could be close to the point where I would accept the use of 
the descriptor proto-Fascist

At 04:27 Wednesday 06/11/02, Macdonald Stainsby wrote:
>You know, with this sort of thing going on it really is pathetic how many 
>of us
>continue to worry about text-book definitions before calling this regime
>infested with Fascism.

Ian W Malcolm-Walker

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