Last exit fascism

Otto Sell o.sell at telda.net
Fri Aug 4 09:58:51 CDT 2000


Mark,

of course you are absolutely right and I think he was speaking mostly of
"Bourgeoisie" exactly, what I called fascism, which is just a name, a term
for the highest step of capitalism before "inevitably" leading to the
proletarian revolution in his belief.

In the case of the "Weimarer Republik" of course hunger, cold, bad housing
and so on made it easy for the nazis. History never is exact repetition and
most of all never predictable. But what if the increasing rates ("too much
is never enough") cannot be reached anymore - inflation, rents and prices
will rise and the people will get poorer and poorer. Plus the tube showing
them what could be bought and the Electi living out their wealth
shamelessly. How many people are living on low-paid part-time jobs in
America?
Maybe your "White Aryan Resistance" and your "KKK" are just freaks in the
end, but our neo-nazi groups and parties are well organized and just
speaking out loudly what wider groups of the people think. And any "left"
thinking has been discredited deeply since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The
ordinary people are getting poorer, the concentration of the capital is
increasing. I've never seen so many empty business houses in this town.

----------- schnipp -----------
To paraphrase Raynor banham, most of us live in luxury a palanquined emperor
could not have imagined a few hundred years ago.
----------- schnipp -----------

 I see that too but at least the emperor was sure of the fact that 99.9
percent of the others were sitting in the sump.

Otto






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