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How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)
Putting an end to the population explosion will not of itself save the ecosphere, but not ending it will add greatly to the dangers the planet faces. The environment can sustain a quality of life for just so many people.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)
Having never understood the role that existing communist powers played in tempering the worst impulses of Western capitalism and imperialism, and having perceived communism as nothing but an unmitigated evil, the left anti-communists did not anticipate the losses that were to come. Some of them still don't get it.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)
Seizing upon anything but class, U.S. leftists today have developed an array of identity groups centering around ethnic, gender, cultural, and life-style issues. These groups treat their respective grievances as something apart from class struggle, and have almost nothing to say about the increasingly harsh politico-economic class injustices perpetrated against us all.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)
At the same time, the rise in pollution and population has given us acid rain, soil erosion, silting of waterways, shrinking grasslands, disappearing water supplies and wetlands, and the obliteration of thousands of species, with hundreds more on the endangered list.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)
Fascism historically has been used to secure the interests of large capitalist interests against the demands of popular democracy. Then and now, fascism has made irrational mass appeals in order to secure the rational ends of class domination.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)
The overthrow of communism gave a green light to the unbridled exploitative impulses of Western corporate interests. No longer needing to convince workers that they live better than their counterparts in Russia, and no longer constrained by a competing system, the corporate class is rolling back the many gains that working people in the West have won over the years. Now that the free market, in its meanest form, is emerging triumphant in the East, so will it prevail in the West.
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (1997)