{"id":1170177,"date":"2023-08-04T06:01:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T06:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=290765"},"modified":"2023-08-04T06:01:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T06:01:43","slug":"fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/08\/04\/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Setting aside culture war animosities for the moment to consider the direction of politics in the US--- to the extent that doing so is psychologically and \/ or economically possible for dedicated culture warriors, recent revelations that the FBI and CIA were active participants in the 2016 and 2020 national elections run headlong into longer history. While \u2018American democracy\u2019 has always been tenuous and abstract (\u2018representative\u2019), the US has now returned to a pre- and inter-War melding of state with commercial interests. The American political \u2018system\u2019 now fits the Marxist-Leninist conception of the capitalist state. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/04\/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/04\/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle\/\">Fascism is the Western Answer to Class Struggle<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/08\/04\/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Rob Urie.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2023\/08\/04\/fascism-is-the-western-answer-to-class-struggle\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting aside culture war animosities for the moment to consider the direction of politics in the US&#8212; to the extent that doing so is psychologically and \/ or economically possible for dedicated culture warriors, recent revelations that the FBI and CI&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":532,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44020,22,4871,228,668,266,27150,46594,42603,29325],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/532"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170244,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170177\/revisions\/1170244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}