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Uncle Sam was Born Lethal
Street, Paul
http://www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/16/uncle-sam-was-born-lethal/Date Written: 2019-08-16 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2019 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX23808 The white European "settlers" of North America wiped out millions of the continent's original inhabitants. They populated their southern colonies and states with Black slaves they mercilessly tortured, raped, maimed, and murdered in forced labour camps that provided the critical raw material for the rise of American capitalism long before Mussolini, Franco, and Hitler rose to power. Abstract: - Excerpt: Fascism won't come to America. It will emerge out of American history. Yes, "it could happen here," to paraphrase Sinclair Lewis 84 years ago, with "it" meaning an fascism. But let us not turn away from how terrible and dangerous what had already happened here and what is happening now, richly consistent with a savagely racist, patriarchal, eco-cidal, authoritarian, and classist Americanism that is as old as this criminal, savagely merciless and “exceptional” nation itself. Subject Headings |