X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:14:54 -0600 (CST) From: "Alan Spector" Sender: spector@calumet.purdue.edu Reply-To: spector@calumet.purdue.edu To: revs@csf.colorado.edu Subject: Million Man March--#3 ------------------------------ From: "Alan Spector" Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 17:28:25 -0600 (CST) To: psn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: "Progressive" Nationalism and Fascism In a post to me and to PSN, J.H. seems to be defending Louis Farrakhan's so-called "Million Man March." He asks me if I have ever heard of the "two aspects of nationalism" and implies that an anti-capitalist movement needs to build an alliance with the progressive nationalist forces. I think a debate over whether nationalism, at this point in history, can any longer be progressive would be an interesting debate, but I don't want to address the general point now. But in specific terms, does anyone think that Farrakhan represents "progressive" nationalism? The man who endorses Hitler, has repeatedly met in friendly conferences with the Ku Klux Klan, prayed for Malcolm X to die, spews the worst anti-Jewish language, claims to have visited a flying saucer, has advocated that white people were created in a laboratory by a mad scientist, gets tons of exposure in the billionaire-owned (white) racist media, and gets endorsed by Mayor Daley and the Chicago City Council, and gets contracts to do policing of public housing projects? Is this a grassroots rebel? I was asked if I had ever heard of the "two aspects of nationalism?" Have we ever heard of a "Trojan Horse?" Alan Spector ############################################################################ Alan Spector, Ph.D. Phone: 219-989-2387 Behavioral Sciences Department FAX : 219-989-2008 Purdue University Calumet E-Mail: SPECTOR@CALUMET.PURDUE.EDU Hammond, IN 46323 USA {Editor of REVS--- an international email network for Racial-Religious-EthnoNationalist Violence Studies} ############################################################################