Fascism arises when the normal parliamentary forms are no longer sufficient for crushing working class resistance. It achieves critical mass, historically speaking, under conditions of extreme distress in the capitalist system. In both the period preceding Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Phalangist Spain, and other fascist states, mass unemployment and social unrest led to a perfect political storm. We are seeing those conditions arising in America right now. We are also seeing a shift away from normal democratic procedure by the far right in favor of naked political thuggery and the beginnings of political terrorism. Of particular concern is the racist rhetoric employed against Barack Obama during the 2008 election and the corporate financing of reactionary mobs. Finally, there is the presence of the Coughlinesque Glenn Beck who goes on television every night to stoke the anxieties of impoverished layers of working class and middle class people into a white hot rage with the occasional faux populist crocodile tears about banks.

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