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Sunday, September 04, 2005
The Bush Administration and Fascism
Posted by Noam Chomsky at 07:46 AM
…The Bush administration (like the Reagan administration) has a particularly
difficult task, and the Bush faction is pretty much a narrow reactionary
statist extreme of the Reaganites—who were a narrow reactionary statist extreme
of the narrow bipartisan spectrum (most Reagan policies extended late Carter
policies).

The Bush administration has to deal with the fact that the last 25 years have
been an unusual, probably unique, period of American economic history. For the
large majority, real wages have stagnated or declined, working hours have
increased, benefits have shrunk, rights have been denied (including the right
to organize, basically rescinded under Reagan and since), and wealth has been
concentrated in a tiny part of the population. To keep the population in line
requires major efforts of all sorts, which have been carried out intensively.
They are even harder than before because there’s no resort to “the Russians are
coming” technique for instilling fear and obedience.

There are similarities to rise of fascism, which have been pointed out right in
the mainstream. One of the leading scholars of Modern Germany, Fritz Stern, had
an article in Foreign Affairs a few months back on the “descent into barbarism”
of Germany in the 1930s. His family came to the US as refugees in the 30s, and
he opens by saying that he now worries about his adopted country. He then runs
through the techniques of national mobilization used by Hitler to drive a
society that was the pride of Western civilization to the depths of barbarism.
Each one is an implicit reference, which can’t be missed, to the Bush
administration