[Peace-discuss] What is neo-fascism? Where is it found?

[Carl G. Estabrook]

In the US political lexicon, neo-liberalism is not liberalism (roughly, the New Deal-Great Society tradition), but its opposite.

Similarly, neo-conservatism is not conservatism (roughly, the isolationist tradition), but its opposite.

Can we assume, then, the current vogue term, 'neo-fascism,' means not fascism (of the 20th century sort) - but its opposite?

That at least is the danger that the US political establishment perceives in the Trump presidency.

Classic fascism combined what we call neoliberalism (state-supported economic exploitation, at home and abroad) and neoconservatism (militarist repression, abroad and even at home).

Fascism's defeat in WWII led in 'les trente glorieuses' (1945-75) to the welfare state and the United Nations.

But beginning in the 1970s, dominant social groups in Europe and America began the overthrow of the welfare state and the UN, accomplished in the 1990s ('austerity ' and Clinton's non-UN-approved attack on Yugoslavia) - after the 1991 destruction of  'the threat of a good example’ (i.e., the socialist ideal, whatever the practice), the USSR.

Trump is the first major party presidential candidate since the 1970s not to pay homage to the principles of neoliberalism and neoconservatism. 

That's why the US political establishment is so desperate to force those principles on the new administration.

—CGE


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