Last exit fascism

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Fri Aug 4 08:06:55 CDT 2000



On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Otto Sell wrote:

> Simplified: according to old Charlie Marx *Fascism* occurs in the highest
> developed capitalist country. Seems as if it's your turn this time...
> 
> >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.


Now THAT's scary. 

It's also possible that soon nobody will be riding the subway anymore
because it's too crowded.

		P.




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