"For [Angela] Davis, fascism in the United States takes a preventive and incipient form...Davis was drawn to Marcuse’s contention that 'fascism is the preventive counter-revolution to the socialist transformation of society.'” https://twitter.com/driftinghouse/status/1323273914252992517
"For many Black radicals, the aspect of their revolutionary politics that most threatened state was not endorsement of armed struggle, but rather 'survival programs,' those enclaves of autonomous social reproduction facilitated by the Panthers & practiced by Black movements."
"Fascism & democracy experienced very differently by different segments of population. As [Angela] Davis puts it, fascism is 'primarily restricted to use of law-enforcement-judicial-penal apparatus to arrest overt & latent revolutionary trends among nationally oppressed people.'"
"Fascism diagnosed by [Angela] Davis is 'protracted social process'... in which on one hand, prison is racialized enclave or laboratory &, on other, fascist strategy of counterrevolution, which flows through society at large but is not experienced equally by everyone everywhere."
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