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Wat's going on? by George Snedeker 01 February 2002 21:55 UTC |
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it is usually argued that Fascism became a political force when the working class was powerful enough to create a crisis of legitimacy, but not powerful enough to come to power. the situation in the United States today is a little different. the working class is weak. it seems that U.S. hegemony is an unquestioned fact. nevertheless, the rightwing is on the move led by GWB. some folks in the 1960s thought fascism was just around the corner. they thought we were already living in a police state. at the time, we lacked a real external enemy who had the ability to attack the U.S. I know that LBJ once claimed that the Vietnamese were about to invade San Francisco. if Bin Lauden did not exist Bush would have had to invent him. tomorrow there will be major protests in New York City against the World Economic Forum meetings. local papers have succeeded in representing the anti-globalization movement as terrorists. it will be interesting to see how the police behave. as Mayor Daily once put it: " The role of the police is not to create disorder; their role is to maintain disorder." perhaps the great fear that keeps the ruling class up all night is the anti-globalization movement. The following paragraph is from an article which appears in the Feb. 1 issue of the email Mid-Hudson (N.Y.) Mid-Hudson Activist Newsletter, which is published in New Paltz, N.Y. STATE OF THE UNION: WAR AND MORE WAR By Jack A. Smith Politically speaking, Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network are the best thing that ever happened to the presidency of George W. Bush. The expatriate Saudi millionaire made President Bush what he is today -- an unprecedentedly popular chief executive who is opportunistically transforming the Sept. 11 terror attacks into a political mandate for pursuing strategic right-wing goals.
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