Re: Don't blame the doctor-- (also known as "Don't Shoot the Messenger."

Andrew Wayne Austin wrote:
 
> Historical fascism is a concrete form of capitalism. There is no question
> about this. Pat's question assumes that fascism is something different
> from capitalism since he is asking me to compare different production
> modes to distinguish fascism from abstract capitalism. A propaganda point
> is waiting in the wings. In the end, Pat has simply made an unsubtle
> ideological attempt to represent fascism as something different from
> capitalism. More accurately, fascism is to be distinguished from
> liberalism and other political articulations of the capitalist mode of
> production. Fascism meets every one of the seven criteria I have outlined
> above and is, therefore, capitalism.

Andrew, if you define fascism and capitalism in this way, I agree that
wars are capitalist enterprises. But I suspect that your reason for
defining terms in this way is to sidestep the important issue of whether
a government (including a world government) would be wise to establish a
private property and profit system.

Regarding the rest of your post, it appears that we are writing about
different issues. I can't tell the difference between what you call
ideological and what I call analytical.


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