The intellectual origins of America-Bashing

[jbor]

on 27/10/03 1:29 AM, Terrance wrote:

> I agree that the word "fascist" is of little use to us here, partly, as
> Rob has often reminded us (and I think his ironic use of the term now is
> but another example ) because of the abuse of that term by participants
> here and by Pynchon's own "screwed up" use of the word.

I fully agree. Those quotation marks I put around the term weren't
accidental. A more apt label is totalitarian, which emphasises the
silencing, internment and elimination of political dissidents under all of
those "Left" despots I've listed below.

best

>> 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.