14-09-2009, 07:06 AM
(This post was last modified: 14-09-2009, 07:39 AM by Peter Lemkin.)
"Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy stands accused of producing division and decline....
a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
Sounds like the angry mobs being stoked-up on the Right by the Corporatists. Don't say, when it happens, we weren't warned. Dawn, yes, she didn't mention your point, but she does in other of her articles and in her book. She is aware of it.
Paxton's five stages are well researched, interesting and [now] frightening! I don't think people are 'yelling wolf' anymore about America and fascism. It is strangely now focused on the debate over healthcare and a general anti-Obama-ism, but it was long there and festered under Bush and all the Administrations since 11/22/63 - even before that - with our noble plutocrats that backed Hitler, etc. Problem is what to do about it?!
a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion."
Sounds like the angry mobs being stoked-up on the Right by the Corporatists. Don't say, when it happens, we weren't warned. Dawn, yes, she didn't mention your point, but she does in other of her articles and in her book. She is aware of it.
Paxton's five stages are well researched, interesting and [now] frightening! I don't think people are 'yelling wolf' anymore about America and fascism. It is strangely now focused on the debate over healthcare and a general anti-Obama-ism, but it was long there and festered under Bush and all the Administrations since 11/22/63 - even before that - with our noble plutocrats that backed Hitler, etc. Problem is what to do about it?!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass