I looked through the the magazine last night, and read quite a bit in detail too, and must say that publications of this sort can be very useful.

For one thing, you can learn something, as I did about Nazism. Except I would strongly disagree that fascism can be anti-capitalist, because capitalism is the economic system of fascism. I would say though, and I think this is what the article "German neo-Nazis and anti-capitalism" tries to say too, is that Fascism is opposed to some aspects of neoliberal capitalism; just as it was opposed to some aspects of the social democratic capitalism that existed before the introduction of neoliberalism in the 1980´s.

Neoliberalism transcends national borders, for example it advocates the total freedom of finance capital to move round the world. This challenges the power of the nation state to regulate or control commerce and industry within its borders. So neoliberalism is a direct challenge to the nationalism which Fascism has strongly relied on now. Perhaps Fascists with find another myth with which they can brainwash the people, that is compatible with neoliberal capitalism.

I think Bush and the neocons hoped they have found it in Islamaphobia. It is a duty of the anti capitalist and anti fascist movements to make sure the neoconservative fascist does not use this myth to develop fascism.

Another thing that can be useful is to discuss the way forward as it were. I mean what next for anti-capitalist movements, although I think the suggestion in one of the articles that you should exclusively work through the (capitalist) system, rather than oppose it directly it is a little restrictive, and unrealistic: why not advocate mixing it up and doing both. And if you look at like this, most activists have jobs, and literally work in the capitalist system anyway. I mean great if you can get by on the social, get some cushy academic job, earn a crust almost outside the capitalist economy or live of the pile of cash the grandparents left you, but most do have a regular job, don’t they, often because they have too .. Like yours truly.


It might be a good idea to start a blog (which are all the rage apparently), where articles like this can be posted and discussed, because Indymedia is essentially a news website. Anyone I know interested.

I'd support the idea of an Indymedia blog site - even a subsite of IMC if possible. There are aspects that do need discussion and although IMC (used to be/is) one of the best sites on which to do this, on-going discussions are often not supported through the site set up and newswire format.

Consequently, I'd support a blog - but one that is publicly accessible rather than one owned by an individual to which one can either be a passive reader or merely add a few moderated comments.

Thanks for your comments, I agree fully.

Yet, none of the articles say fascism=anti-capitalism. Rather they support what you say: fascists oppose an idea of capitalism which they see as neo-liberal, speculative and financial. Hence our conclusion: we need to see what capitalism really is, not just neo-liberalism, but a system of indirect exploitation through the production of goods for exchange, and that includes the welfare state!

I am glad we clarified that and we actually agree, as I said I only looked through most of your magasine so I may not have got the full context. But Welfare State! Surely, there wont be an dole or social giros when you make capitalism illegal again because there wont be any money, will there.



I would agree what was said about a blogg above. Perhaps you need a few editors who can write and trawl for articles, and whose main role would be to choose and edit articles sent in. Perhaps 1 or 2 a day.

And there would be no point wasting time just repeating what IM are doing now, but I am sure some of the posts sent in would be good for a Blogg. I think it would be good to concentrate on newsy, relevent stories from around the world and locally too, interpersed with some theortical stuff or comment. IThere might be important things that you might miss on the news wire, or that dont get covered because there are well covered in the mainstream media.