Organizational skill has nothing to do with it. A Fascist or Communist style totalitarian movement simply does not suit the needs of our current plutocracy, which is rapidly growing in strength using far more brilliant but less dramatic organizational skills. Today, people are controlled financially, without the need for a lot of goosesteping. Financial control is much smarter than dressing up in a distinctive uniform and making yourself a target, don’t you think?Agreed, but with a small quibble about "financial" control. That's the desired end. But the mechanisms are ultimately psychological: The tools of distraction and diversion pioneered by marketing. These are vastly more effective and efficient than anything Goebbels or Stalin could have dreamed up. Direct coercion is expensive and prone to backfire."
It seems to me that this discussion, dialogue, is now long passe.
Of course mere Western fascism is not our problem.
Doubtless, there are those, almost everyone here, who will see the bugbear of domestic politics slipping into fascism as the biggest problem America faces...
Larger civilizational forces than those merely of the so called market, or of an ostensibly Western led plutocracy, either of fascism or of communism, thought of in a Western way, are now under way.
Viewed from this wider perspective, the American Civil War, and how it was dealt with among the Great Powers, represents only another minor, ephemeral, symptom of this larger developing problem for the West, leaving whatever one might think it meant, strictly for American domestic politics, or american so called race relations, entirely aside.
Viewed from this wider perspective, the American Civil War, and how it was dealt with among the Great Powers, represents only another minor, ephemeral, symptom of this larger developing problem for the West, leaving whatever one might think it meant, strictly for American domestic politics, or american so called race relations, entirely aside.
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