This article was written
almost 10 years ago. He seemed exaggerated to some people at the
time, but reality shows us that he was rather understated. Since many
new and, above all, younger readers have been added to this list, I
think it is important to publish this article again. And this time
even in English.
Never
fascism again? We're in the middle of it!
Einar Schlereth
Published 2009 by
Tlaxcala
This article was
written almost 10 years ago. He seemed exaggerated to some people at
the time, but reality shows us that he was rather understated. Since
many new and, above all, younger readers found their way here, I
think it is important to publish this article again.
In view of the Nazi
and fascist phenomena, intellectuals from the left-wing and left-wing
liberal spectrum were not only aware that it could have appeared in
this or similar forms in other countries too, but also that it could
have reappeared if necessary. If necessary means, if the ruling
monopoly capitalist-imperialist class feels threatened and its
privileges sufficiently threatened to have to resort to these or
similar methods. The constantly heard warning shout "Never more
fascism!" had the consequence, however, that they stared
hypnotized at the appearance of swastika, National Socialist slogans
and skinheads and did not notice how de facto "fascism"
spread again and is now firmly established in the middle of us. And
by "in the midst of us" I mean the "free" West or
the highly industrialized countries led by the United States of
America (USA). [1]
In order to exclude
errors, I would like to quote the usual bourgeois definition of
fascism according to Meyer's Great Pocket Encyclopaedia of 1987: "The
ideology was characterized by antimarxism, anti-liberalism,
militarism and exaggerated nationalism." According to the same
source, "fascism, according to the Marxist view, constitutes a
new kind of fascism applied in bourgeois democracies in economic or
political crisis situations. Fascism makes it possible to dismantle
workers' parties and trade unions, reduce labour costs and increase
profitability". Another characteristic of fascism is the
principle of leadership, mass party and one-party state. However,
this is, as will be shown, of secondary importance. There is no
problem without these principles, and the United States is the best
example of this. It is not for nothing that Hitler saw the USA as a
role model in many respects.
The USA, along with
Russia and Australia (Canada as a quasi 51st state of the USA, you
don't have to mention it) is the country that was not decolonized
after the upheavals of World War I and World War II. The reason is
simple: the poor, disenfranchised, partially religiously persecuted
people of the Old Continent have dedicated themselves to the
extermination of the rightful owners of the New Continent for
centuries with such devotion and dedication that hardly any remains.
They were thus able to take over an entire continent, i. e. in good
German stealing. One of the great mysteries of history is how a state
can continue to devote itself to the Holocaust with impunity and at
the same time be celebrated as a democracy and constitutional state.
But that is the
case: Every woman/everyone who criticizes the USA must expect
attacks, slander, silence or even the worst. Rolf Winter, former
editor-in-chief of Stern and Geo, wrote the book "Ami go Home -
Pleading for the Farewell to a Violent Country" [3], in which he
proved that the USA is "inherently violent". In a public
discussion in Hamburg, the former mayor of Hamburg, Schulz, did not
denigrate himself to mention the weekly 5 plates and the chocolate
bar in the school meals after the war for the goodness of the USA. Of
course, he refused to answer factual criticism. He didn't and no one
else did. The book was largely hushed up by the media. It was still
sold well.
And that brings us
to two key concepts: the media and their state-run role and despite
of this. This despite of the state, despite of the violence, despite
of the judiciary, despite of the church, despite of he university and
school, and - often enough - despite of parents gives us a glimmer of
hope (the liberation movements in the 3rd world, 1968, today's global
anti-globalization movement, etc.).
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