fascism

[MalignD at aol.com]

> Last things first:
> 
<<PS - When I reply to Pynchon-L mail, it automatically sends to both the 
pynchon-l at waste.org address, and whoever sent the originating e-mail. If this is 
bothersome to you, I'll manually remove the second e-mail, starting 
immediately after I send this e-mail.>>

It's not bothersome; I received first an email sent only to my address.   The 
second   appeared later.   No bother.

<<Let's start off with the peculiar institution of African Slavery and the 
genocide of North America's native peoples.>>

I thought this was where you'd start.   If it wasn't clear to you, my 
argument from the start was semantic.   Since I don't think the word "fascist" was in 
currency at the time, perhaps not even coinied, it's ahostirocial (if I'm 
correct) accurately to call America, at that time,"fascist."   

That aside, I think you're confusing a rampant racism or a lack of 
enlightenment around the issues of race with a national racist governmental policy.   
There was never a single, unified government in place that made racism its 
policy.   Racism wasn't a police state, with government officials down on the 
plantation making sure that the massas were properly cruel.   

That slavery ended was entirely a result of the US not being fascist.


   



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