Below are reposts from an older exchange between Stan Goff and Don Hamerquist. The original discussion was posted on a version of the Bring The Ruckus!(BtR) website that is no longer in use. For reasons of extending the discussion, or at least some concepts within, we are now putting the exchange up on 3WF. We have attempted to date the posts as they became public. These discussions predate the launch of this blog by just a few months and helped shape the basis for what we were aiming for in terms of movement debate and anlysis.
Below is the introduction from BtR, Goff’s original article with subsequent exchange. We then include some related comments.
A New Fascism? A Dead Imperialism? An Exchange between Stan Goff and Don Hammerquist
…debate between veteran revolutionaries Stan Goff and Don Hammerquist on fascism and global capitalism is now available on the Bring the Ruckus web site. In it, Hammerquist more fully develops his definition of fascism and his argument for why Al Qaeda and other movements should be understood as posing a revolutionary fascist challenge to global capital. He also argues that the present capitalist system should not be considered “imperialist.”
“The fact is that [American] neoconservative policies may well jeopardize economic and political stability in the metropolis. They are willing to risk, not only popular living and working conditions in the imperial center, but also the relative power and influence of the specifically U.S. sections of capitalism. This is why it is so problematic to identify neocon strategy with a resurgence of U.S. imperialism. They would risk the very basis of American global power to protect and advance what they call freedom.?
“Contemporary neo-fascism involves two elements. First there is a rapidly expanding social base. This base is composed of the declassed and marginalized, a huge population that has been permanently defined as non-productive and redundant by capitalist development… The second element is the assortment of reactionary groups, with no necessary connection to each other, that more or less consciously try to organize this social base against the established structure of power, a structure which they see as corrupt, decadent and fundamentally wrong.”
Nov 10, 2004
There’s No There There: Debating a Neocon
Dec 15, 2004
Responding to Stan Goff’s, Debating a NeoCon
Jan 13, 2005
Continued discourse on article, Debating a NeoCon. Goff responds to Hamerquist
Feb 15, 2005
Hamerquist on dilemmas for Capital and further outlines of the content of the resistance movements.
March 1, 2005
Matthew Lyons comments on Hamerquist Goff exchange
March 31, 2005
Hamerquist Responds to Matthew Lyons