Monday, February 28, 2011

Republicans lead fascist attack on Constitution (yes, really) http://www.ww4report.com/node/9544

A critical key to resisting fascism's rise is learning to recognize it in its new guises—even when it paradoxically employs anti-fascist rhetoric (Obama as Hitler, ATF agents as "jack-booted thugs," Hitler as an advocate of gun control, etc.) As Huey Long, Louisiana's populist governor and senator of the 1930s, is supposed to have said: "Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.”That's the way it could work here. The most reactionary elements of the white working class (and downwardly-mobile middle class) will get ethnic scapegoats and the promise of a nation purged of foreign contagions as they are used to beat back the progressive elements of the working class—until such time as their work is done and they have outlived their usefulness to the ruling class. By which time we will all be under some form of American fascism that will almost certainly call itself something other than "fascism."

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