The intellectual origins of America-Bashing

[Otto]

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From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
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Subject: Re: The intellectual origins of America-Bashing


> on 25/10/03 3:59 AM, Ghetta Life wrote:
>
> > Well Harris was sticking to Marx's "realism" (miseration brought on by
> > capitalism leading to socialism), so how does this fascism phase work
with
> > Marx's theory?
>
> Most of the "socialist" revolutionary governments of last century turned,
> often quite quickly, into "fascist" dictatorships: Kim Il Jong, Milosevic,
> the Ceaucescus, Saddam, Pol Pot, Castro, the Gang of Four, Hoxha, Stalin.
> It's a pretty appalling track record.
>
> best

Which only proves that they've not been socialist at all.

But all the appalling fascist regimes that came out of capitalism (Hitler,
Mussolini, Franco, Marcos for example) remained capitalist.

Otto