World fascism is upon us
lookaround | 23.06.2002 09:17
World fascism is upon us
lookaround
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lookaround | 23.06.2002 09:17
World fascism is upon us
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1930's German Motor car revisited
23.06.2002 09:36
big mercs 500, 600, the Audi 8 and the new (big) BMW's look very similar in style to the 1930's limo's that Hermann Goering and the Nazi's uused to swan about in.
Goering would look just right in a modern day big Merc, I'm sure they could a soft version for the right customer.
C
Labours <Vichy Regime>
24.06.2002 15:23
Normally Its cheap rhetoric to call every politician a 'dictator' and I wouldnt do so, but behind the affability of Blair i see the refugee deportation camps. Having recently read sevral books on the history and politics of French fascism ( mainly Paxton, Aron, and Sternhell) I am left in no doubt that the Labour party willingness to collaborate with neo-capitalism is producing a very similar effect to that of Marshall Petains efforts to do so with Germany in the 1940s.
What brought it to my attention was the hitherto obscure "Board of Standards for England", which it seems was instigated in the late 1990s (by Labour) and has the power to suspend the Mayor of London , who is currently being investigated for alleged personal misconduct. This had definite echoes of Vichy's "Council for Political Justice", and it set me on a line of thinking. All the way from the cliqueishness of the party machine, its moralism (including the personal affability of the leader), its willingness to sponsor sopcial forms above the state and the law, the profligacy and profiteering, flirting with slogans "New Britain, Third Way" and above all its CAPITULATIONISM: remember, Vichy came of a fascism in defeat, and Labour too (or Old Labour as its now known) was effectively defeated by Thatcher in the 1980s. The party openly acknowledges it, and sounds rather like Laval offering no objection to NSDAP directives. BUT, signifcantly, Neither French fascism nor Labour were actually destroyed as such; rather they lumbered on under 'new management' so while Vichy cannot be called a puppet regime, neither can Blairism be dismissed as an entirely extraneous graft onto 'genuine ' Labour.
Hysterical ? I wouldve said so if it werent for those refugee deportation camps and neighbourhood security groups ...
G.H. Ujikop