What's going on in the u.s.a. right now is fascism at it's very core, and the forces who support trump and who he has unleashed to do his filthy work in an already racist fucked up society are fucking disgusting lowlife amoral bigots and fascists .
You'd have to be a fool not to see this , especially if your aim is to build a more just world.
“OH, NOW THEY’RE SAYING”—
You'd have to be a fool not to see this , especially if your aim is to build a more just world.
“OH, NOW THEY’RE SAYING”—
IT’S FASCISM!
by Bob Avakian
| revcom.us
The late sportscaster Dick Enberg frequently used
that phrase (“Oh, now they’re saying”) to cover up
his mistakes. Here’s an example: In a basketball
game Enberg is broadcasting, someone makes a
shot—but they are called for a “traveling” violation,
so the shot doesn’t count. Yet Enberg doesn’t realize
right away that the “traveling call” has been made
and the shot doesn’t count—and he goes on for a
while raving about what a “great shot” it is, before
he finally realizes that the shot doesn’t count.
Then, instead of simply admitting his mistake,
he says: “Oh, now they’re saying the shot
doesn’t count” (when that has been the
case all along!).
I was reminded of this in seeing a number
of recent articles and commentaries, including
by more “mainstream” voices, where comparisons
are being made between Trump and the NAZIs
and the specter of fascism in this country is finally
being discussed by such people. For years now,
those of us who have been consistently pointing to
the fascist nature and objectives of Trump, and the
whole Trump/Pence regime, have been met not
only with attacks from the “base” of this regime
but with ridicule and dismissal from many “liberals,”
who have accused us of using exaggeration, hype,
and “alarmism” in the attempt to scare and
manipulate people into following us. Now, when
what we have said about this is becoming
increasingly obvious, to the point where more
“respectable” sources are beginning to speak in
these terms, a few honest people have readily
acknowledged “You were right about this, and I
was wrong.” Yet most of those who, for some time,
have criticized or dismissed our analysis—but have
now finally started to recognize, “Well, I guess this
is fascism”—have not had the decency and
integrity to acknowledge that we have been correct
all along in calling this fascism, and instead they
have done the “Oh, now they’re saying” routine.
To be clear, the reason it is right and necessary for
people to acknowledge that we have been right
all along about this is not a matter of our egos,
but a matter of principle and method. If we have
been right about something as important as this,
maybe there is something to learn from that—
not only the particular analysis we have made but
the method that underlies that analysis, the
scientific method and approach of investigating
reality and proceeding on the basis of the facts
and evidence about the actual reality, following
the truth where it leads, rather than proceeding
according to preconceived notions and prejudices
and resisting “uncomfortable” conclusions. And
this question also needs to be seriously engaged:
Perhaps those of us who have applied this method
and approach to understanding not only the
nature of the Trump/Pence regime but, beyond
that, the fundamental nature of the system we live
under, are also correct in our conclusion that this
system (of capitalism-imperialism) has the most
horrendous oppression, exploitation and plunder,
of people and the environment, built into its very
foundation and its ongoing functioning—and
therefore, as we have emphasized: This system
cannot be reformed, it must be overthrown,
if there is to be a future worth living for humanity.
