Oh My God! The Communist manifesto? Freaking Canadian Socialist rats are infiltrating the United States! Jim Carey, William Shatner, Peter Jennings, Leslie Nielsen, Celine Dion....
AHHHH!
Wait a minute...David Frum, the Reich Wing speechwriter and Paid Pundit who dreamed up "The Axis Of Evil" meme, is a Canadian. And his Mother, Barbara, was a Canadian cultural icon for her hard hitting journalism and her willingness to challenge the political elite, said Mother is now rolling in her grave...
Hell, Canadians can be fascists too...
REBIRTH OF HATE:
THE NEW FACE OF FASCISM IN CANADA
David Lethbridge
PROLOGUE
Fascism did not die with the defeat of Hitler's Germany in 1945. It continued to rebuild throughout Europe, the USA, and Canada, where in the last few years neo-fascism and organized racism have exploded into political action and naked violence. How are we to understand this?
In 1970, Angela Davis and Bettina Aptheker wrote: "The maturation of fascist tendencies is a correlative to the maturation of the revolutionary process, both arising out of the acute and general crisis of the social order. The fascist thrust must be resisted in its incipient stages by the broadest possible coalition, before it has an opportunity to consolidate its power; and the democratic, radical essence of the anti-fascist movement is likewise the prerequisite for the success of the revolutionary movement."1
The general crisis of capitalism has not disappeared in the intervening years, on the contrary it has intensified. At the same time, fascist tendencies within the organized racist right in Canada (and, indeed, in the USA, Europe, and elsewhere) have continued to develop and mature. In fact, the growth of the fascist right has far outstripped the "correlative maturation of the revolutionary process."
In 1970, imperialism was being defeated in Vietnam, and people's movements around the world were in struggle against oppression, from the Black Panthers and the counterculture in the USA, to the struggles for a socialist alternative across Europe, Africa, Asia, and South America. The optimism was palpable despite any number of setbacks, assassinations, and attacks by the forces of state terrorism.
Today, the situation has changed completely and the causes of the collapse of the revolutionary moment remain to be debated. With the decline of the left, the far right has seized the political opportunity. Nevertheless, it remains true that fascism and revolution do both arise from the crisis in the social order. They do not, however, arise at precisely the same time, or with forces of equal strength, or under conditions of equal ascendancy. To imagine that they do would be to misunderstand historical materialism utterly and to fall into the illusory world of equal balances and static relations promoted so strongly by capitalist ideology.
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