That's why revolutionaries and demagogues can both potentially tap into so much power using it. That race is always so electrically charged, so filled with mass power, precisely because it's about raw class. “This liberal intellectual polarity that "race issues" and "class issues" are opposites, are completely separate from each other, and that one or the other must be the main thing, is utterly useless! We have to really get it that race issues aren't the opposite of class issues. When Race Burns Class: Settlers Revisited And the steady waterfall of patriarchal violence against women, of rapes and torture and killings and very effective terrorism on a mass scale, should remind us that the multitude of reactionary men have "equal opportunity" under "democracy", too.” They hunted down the Black Panthers and the American Indian Movement like it was deer hunting season, while white America went shopping at the mall – all without needing fascism.
The main problem hasn't been fascism in the old sense – it's been neocolonialism and bourgeois democracy! The bourgeoisie didn't need any fascism at all to put Leonard Peltier away in maximum security for life or Mumia on death row. But definitely not here, not in that old way. No, that was Nazism in Germany, maybe, though even there that's not a useful way of looking at it. When they're not using the word loosely and rhetorically to mean any repression at all (like the frequent assertions that cutting welfare is "fascism"! I mean, give us a break!), they're still reciting their favorite formula that the fascists are only the "pawns of the ruling class". The white Left here is behind in understanding fascism. Which was why both the white Left and white Far Right alike back then in the 1930s were patriotic and pro-American. However good or bad the economic situation was, white settlers were getting the best of what was available. There already was a longstanding, thinly disguised settler dictatorship over the colonial proletariat in North America. What for? There was no class deadlock paralyzing society. Neither the ruling class nor the white masses had any real need for fascism. Fascism was distinct from racism or white supremacy, which were only "as American as apple pie." imperialist support for Italian, Spanish and German fascism before and even during World War II, as opposed to support for fascism at home.
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