Last exit fascism

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy

--- Otto Sell <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> Simplified: according to old Charlie Marx *Fascism* occurs in the
> highest
> developed capitalist country. Seems as if it's your turn this time...

Isn't "old Charlie Marx" older than the Fascist movement in Italy, even
in it's embryonic labor union form? the movement from which Fascism
takes its name?  What did Marx call the phenomenon, and how closely
does his particular concept match *any* real-world entity from the last
century?  Not having read Marx (beyond the C. Manifesto long, long ago)
I honestly don't know.  It sounds as if you are promoting an
anachronism though.

> From today's DIE ZEIT (http://www.zeit.de/):
> "In den USA koennte es bald keine Jobs mehr geben, die zwischen
> Putzfrau und
> Manager angesiedelt sind."
>         Richard Rorty, amerikanischer Philosoph
> 
> Saying that it's rather possible that soon there'll be no jobs
> between
> *Cleaning Woman* and *Manager* in the US anymore. A middle class
> sinking
> into poverty through mass unemployment was the force behind the
> German nazis
> in the 30's.

Our middle class cannot be said to be "sinking into poverty" or
unemployment.  To paraphrase Raynor banham, most of us live in luxury a
palanquined emperor could not have imagined a few hundred years ago.
Our problem is that too much is never enough. 

Germany's biggest problem, touched upon by P in GR, was the inflation
that made most of whatever wealth remained after the Great War
evaporate.  The middle class didn't sink into poverty so much as
plummet. And curse the Jews as they fell.

Mark
Mark


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