Race and Democracy Michael Hanchard.pdf

1、US DEMOCRACYS FLIRTATION WITH FASCISM:RACIAL RULE IS THE CAUSENot for Citation or DistributionDr.Michael G.HanchardGustave C.Kuemmerle ProfessorDept.of Africana StudiesThe University of Pennsylvania3401A Walnut St.Suite 325APhila.,PA 19104Alternative for DeutschlandBjrn HckeJanuary 6th,2020 Insurrec

2、tion“This is not who we are!”Well,who are we?January 6 was not an anomaly in US democratic politics,but a constitutive feature of its politics.Is the United States a fundamentally racist society,or a fundamentally democratic society?Could it be both?Democracy,Racial Rule and Fascism “It may be that

3、the earliest phenomenon that can be functionally related to fascism is American:the Ku Klux Klanthe first version of the Klan in the defeated American South was arguably a remarkable preview of the fascist movements that were to function in interwar Europe.It should not be surprising,after all,that

4、the most precocious democracies the United States and France should have generated precocious backlashes against democracy”(Robert Paxton,The Anatomy of Fascism,49).Racial rule predates fascism.Fascism is inconceivable without racial rule.The First Fascist States Grew out of DemocraciesItaly,1922-19

5、43;1892-1921 Giovanni GiolottiGermany,1933-1945;Weimar Republic 1919-1933Spain,1936-1975;Constitutional MonarchyCharacteristicsColonialism and imperial expansion as a vindication,return to former gloryRepression of labor,limits upon group assembly and association,Racialized targeting of immigrants a

6、nd marginalized populationsCollusion between large business interests,conservative ideologues and government to clamp down on political dissentMyths of homogenous community somewhere in the distant pastInequality Has Been Baked into DemocracyIn The Promise of Politics,Arendt suggests that politics i