<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">William Robinson</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:w.i.robinson1@gmail.com">w.i.robinson1@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 2:55 AM<br>Subject: My Latest: "BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE" - united front against fascism<br>To: william robinson <<a href="mailto:w.i.robinson1@gmail.com">w.i.robinson1@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:small"><div style="font-size:small">(Please excuse the double posting for those who read my Facebook blog: I normally do not send to this list serve commentaries that I post on that blog but I make an exception in this case)<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Dear friends,<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Some
of you are new to this listserve. I send occasional articles and
commentaries (about 10 per year) mostly my own writing, most of them in English and some in Spanish. <i><b>We are all inundated with emails and I will absolutely not be offended if you ask me to take you off this list.<br></b></i></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Algunos
de ustedes son nuevos a esta lista. Envío unos 10 artículos y comentarios
al año, la mayoría en inglés y algunos en español. Sé que somos
inundados por correos y en absoluto no estaré ofendido si prefiere le
quité de la lista.<br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br><i><b><i><b> My Facebook blog page is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WilliamIRobinsonSociologist/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/WilliamIRobinsonSociologist/</a>. <br></b></i></b></i></div></div></div><div style="font-size:small">-----------------</div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>
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STRUGGLE:<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">William
I. Robinson<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Racist
police, as foul and criminal as they are, are but an extension of the
capitalist state.<span> </span>They exist to defend
property from the propertyless, to enforce the power of capital and the rich over
the poor and dispossessed majority who in the United States come
disproportionately from racially oppressed communities.<span> </span>Behind the eruption of righteous rage over
the murder of George Floyd is mass unemployment, escalating inequality, the
marginality of tens of millions of people thrown into the ranks of surplus
labor, intensified levels of exploitation, spreading hunger, immiseration, insecurity,
and death, all spewed up by a global capitalism that accepts no restraint on its
predation.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I
have been warning since the mid-2000s about the dangers of a 21<sup>st</sup>
century fascism and global police state in response to the crisis of capitalism
and rebellion from below.<span> </span>Global
capitalism is arguable now in the worst crisis in its history.<span> </span>Fascist forces that bring together predatory
transnational capital with reactionary and repressive power in the state (including
the state’s armed bodies) and a fascist mobilization in civil society are on
the rise worldwide.<span> </span>Trump, himself a
transnational capitalist, a racist, and a fascist, is taking advantage of the
protests over the murder of George Floyd to bring this project to a new level, inciting
from the White House itself the fascist mobilization in civil society and
threatening a qualitative escalation of the police state.<span> </span>There are agent provocateurs.<span> </span>The state may use them, now or at some future
point, to declare martial law and intensify repression, both legal and martial.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">As
is now well known, the new brownshirts – a reference to the Nazi Party’s original
paramilitary wing during the years leading up to the fascist takeover – in the
white nationalist militia, the Nazi and Klan groups, anti-immigrant
organization, the “Boogaloos,” the Patriot and anti-lockdown movements, among
an expanding litany of far-right and Alt-Right groups, are heavily armed and
mobilizing for confrontation in near-perfect consort with the extreme right-wing
of the Republican Party, which long since has captured that party and turned it
into one of utter reaction.<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
social order is coming apart at the seams but a fascist takeover is far from
inevitable.<span> </span>We urgently need a united
front against fascism that places ant-racism and anti-capitalism at its center
and that seeks to mount a revolutionary challenge to capitalist state power.<span> </span>The current uprising, to the extent that it
helps to radicalize the new generation of young people leading the protests, may
contribute to a critical accumulation of forces from below that could push us further
in the direction.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Here
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">(attached) </span>is my 2019 article on Trump and the threat of 21<sup>st</sup> century fascism:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p></div><div></div><div><br></div><div>William I. Robinson<br>Professor of Sociology and</div><div></div><div>Global and International Studies</div><div>Affiliated Faculty, Latin American and Iberian Studies</div><div>Affiliated Faculty, Chicana and Chicano Studies<br></div><div>University of California-Santa Barbara<br>web page: <a href="http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/robinson" target="_blank">www.soc.ucsb.edu/faculty/robinson</a><br>photo web page: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/wirobinson" target="_blank">www.flickr.com/photos/wirobinson</a><br></div><div>Facebook blog page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/williamirobinsonsociologist" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/williamirobinsonsociologist</a></div><div>Amazon author's page: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001HD35GA" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001HD35GA</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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