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What
is Fascism
Is
AmeriKKKa a Fascist State?
By
Junious Ricardo Stanton
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When
most people hear the word "fascism" they
naturally think of its ugly racism and anti-Semitism as
practiced by the totalitarian regimes of Mussolini and
Hitler. But there was also an economic policy component
of fascism, known in Europe during the 1920s and '30s as
"corporatism," that was an essential
ingredient of economic totalitarianism as practiced by
Mussolini and Hitler. So- called corporatism was adopted
in Italy and Germany during the 1930s and was held up as
a "model" by quite a few intellectuals and
policy makers in the United States and Europe. A version
of economic fascism was in fact adopted in the United
States in the 1930s and survives to this day. In the
United States these policies were not called
"fascism" but "planned capitalism."
The word fascism may no longer be politically
acceptable, but its synonym "industrial
policy" is as popular as ever.
--Thomas
J. DiLorenzo |
Several
writers myself included have taken to referring to AmeriKKKa as
a fascist state. When most people hear the word fascism they
recall images of high stepping Nazi SS soldiers saluting Adolph
Hitler the totalitarian dictator of Germany whose militarism and
imperialism dragged the colonial powers of Europe, Japan and
AmeriKKKa into an hegemonic struggle over the world's land,
labor and resources.
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Those
brainwashed between the1930's and 1980's think of Hitler
foremost and Benito Mussolini of Italy second. Few if
any would even consider the United States of AmeriKKKa a
fascist state, so thorough is our indoctrination and
bamboozlement. Most people don't even know what fascism
is. We have been conditioned to think of AmeriKKKa in
grand and noble terms although it is indeed a fascist
nation politically and economically! |
AmeriKKKa
has always been a rabidly racist police state, it had to be. The
Europeans who came to this hemisphere came for conquest and
plunder. The Spanish called themselves Conquistadors,
conquerors. They were commissioned by the Pope blessed and
exhorted to ravage the "New World" in the name of the
King, their god and church. Once gold was discovered Western
Europe went berserk attempting to stake their claims.
Out
this predatory legacy, with the elites' unwillingness to work
for what they got, the whites came here and forced the
indigenous inhabitants to do their dirty work for them. When
that proved unsuccessful because the pathologically diseased
Europeans laid waste to the natives, they looked elsewhere for
cheap labor. They turned to Africa continuing the Portuguese
practice of kidnapping and later bartering for humans and the
trans-Atlantic slave trade was born. To maintain order and
control in the English colonies a brutally repressive form of
slavery was instituted.
Poor
whites and indentured servants who were one step away from
serfdom themselves, were pressed into service and compelled to
support the police state as it waged war against the Indians and
brutally suppressed the Africans. To better glean the scope of
ruthlessness and the thoroughness of the police state, read A.
Leon Higginbotham Jr.'s In The Matter of Color and
Kenneth M. Stampp's The Peculiar Institution. Many of us
are familiar with the legalized racial caste in AmeriKKKa, what
we may not be familiar with is the rise of coperate fascism and
how it plays itself out now.
AmeriKKKan
fascism is not new. Many upper class AmeriKKKans embraced
fascism in the 1930's. Rich Gibson in an essay entitled "What
Is Fascism?" stated, "Fascism and capitalism are
inseparable. There has never been a form of capital that was not
built on a fascist base--from early British action against the
Chartists to today's varieties of imperialism. All major
capitalist nations have fascist ties. Hence, while fascism may
not be the dominant form of capitalist government, elements of
fascist ideology (biological determinism, rabid nationalism,
etc.) and fascist organizations (sectors of the police, KKK,
skinheads, etc.) are always present.
No
capitalist government has ever required a revolution to
institute fascism. Fascism does emerge in capitalist crises, the
moments when the struggle for production reaches a point when
the workers can no longer purchase the products they produce, a
crisis of over-production and declining profits and/or an
intense battle for cheaper labor, raw materials, and new
markets; that is, war." Are we not seeing this intense and
protracted battle for cheaper labor, raw materials and new
markets in the form of globalism with the IMF and World Bank
doing the bidding of global capitalists and as Bush & Co.
indiscriminately push for war in their quest for god (gold, oil
and drugs)?
In
a piece entitled "Economic Fascism," Thomas DiLorenzo
wrote, "The essence of fascism, therefore, is that
government should be the master, not the servant, of the people.
Think about this. Does anyone in America really believe that
this is not what we have now? Are Internal Revenue Service
agents really our "servants"? Is compulsory
"national service" for young people, which now exists
in numerous states and is part of a federally funded program,
not a classic example of coercing individuals to serve the
state?
Isn't
the whole idea behind the massive regulation and regimentation
of American industry and society the notion that individuals
should be forced to behave in ways defined by a small
governmental elite? When the nation's premier health-care
reformer recently declared that heart bypass surgery on a
92-year-old man was 'a waste of resources,' wasn't that the
epitome of the fascist ideal-that the state, not individuals,
should decide whose life is worthwhile, and whose is a 'waste'
" http://www.banned-books.com/truth-seeker/1994archive/121_3/ts213l.html
Most
AmeriKKKans are opposed to a pre-emptive war against Iraq, yet
Bush is determined to start one to depose the ruler of a
sovereign nation who has done nothing to AmeriKKKa, expropriate
his nation's oil and exploit its geo-strategic location vis a
vis the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. The Bush administration
refuses to prosecute its corporate cronies and benefactors in
the Enron scandal, or honestly investigate the malfeasance and
or treachery in the 9-11 debacle and corporate/government
collusion with regards to energy policy, the War on Terrorism
yet surreptitiously whittling away the civil rights and
procedural guarantees of their vaulted Constitution and Bill of
Rights? (These same documents codified slavery, racial exclusion
and oppression.) Is this "democracy" or is it
fascism?
AmeriKKKa's
growing willingness to continue using its superior military
force and weapons of mass destruction against much weaker
nations -- the Native Americans, Mexico, Spain, Haiti, Chile,
Laos, Viet Nam, Cambodia etc.-- reveals its psychopathic bully-like
and cowardly nature despite all the Rambo and Dirty Harry type
films that massage and warped psyches of Euro-AmeriKKKans.
There
was a time when black folks were the prime targets of
AmeriKKKa's terrorism. Excluded from policy making and decision
making positions or even privy to the plans of the oppressors,
we could shake our heads and say, "white folks are
crazy". But now with Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice in
the loop, and with numerous blacks in visible positions in
corporate AmeriKKKa, and so few black voices rising to oppose
what is going on, we're no longer exempt from the world's
indignation and condemnation; and rightly so. The new face of
fascism, is AmeriKKKa.
POSITIVELY BLACK 3/2/03 |
