Is conservatism a legitimate ideology? Yes. At its most benign, it aims to maintain the status quo and works for the benefit of the ruling class. At its worst, it supports fascism and actively works against the masses.
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The rise of fascism within our midst
By BENJIE OLIVEROS Analysis Bulatlat.com Progressive analysts are raising the alarm over the rise of fascism. And they are not referring to neo-nazi groups in Europe, although these are on the rise too especially after the 2008 crisis, and governments in Europe began shifting the blame for the lack in jobs to immigrants. They are…
Under the Cloak of Liberalism
America on the Cusp of Fascism By NORMAN POLLACK Counterpunch I use “fascism” here not as a cliché, but as an historical-structural formation principally rooted in the mature stage of capitalism, in which business-government interpenetration (what the Japanese political scientist Masao Maryuma called the “close-embrace” system) has created hierarchical social classes of wide differences in…
American Kleptocracy: How Fears of Socialism and Fascism Hide Naked Theft
By William J. Astore TomDispatch.com/Truthout?International Posted by Bulatlat.com Kleptocracy — now, there’s a word I was taught to associate with corrupt and exploitative governments that steal ruthlessly and relentlessly from the people. It’s a word, in fact, that’s usually applied to flawed or failed governments in Africa, Latin America, or the nether regions of Asia.…
Is the US on the Brink of Fascism?
By SARAH ROBINSON Truthout/The Campaign for America’s Future International Posted by Bulatlat There are dangerous currents running through America’s politics and the way we confront them is crucial. All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist rhetoric ratcheted up, hate speech turned into intimidation and…
Students Hit ‘Creeping State Fascism in Schools’
Four elements of the Philippine Army were recently caught in the act of spying on students of the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Student leaders criticized surveillance and other tactics employed by state agents to disrupt the student movement. Bulatlat.comBY BULATLAT HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Volume VIII, Number 30, August 31 – September 6, 2008 Four…