Michel Foucault Quotes
This non-proletarianised plebs has been racialist when it has been colonialist; it has been nationalist - chauvinist - when it has been armed; and it has been fascist when it has become the police force.These ideological effects on the plebs have been uncontestable and profound.
Foucault, Michel. "On Popular Justice: A Discussion with Maoists." Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977, edited by Colin Gordon, Pantheon Books, 1980, p. 24.
American Communist Party Newspaper. The communists were so supportive of the war effort that they were often unconditional defenders of the Roosevelt Administration’s war program. Most communists suspended their advocacy of labor strikes and Black enfranchisement during the war because it would ultimately lead to the weakening of the Allied efforts against the Nazis. Programs such as the “March on Washington Movement” were seen as untimely and therefore subversive and fascist. For more communist criticism of attempts during this period to further civil rights see {603312}
70 years after Fascism was defeated in Italy, there were still a number of right wing politicians who still espoused some of the Fascist principles. “Abjure” means to repudiate.
Evelyn John St. Loo Strachey
Fascists were variously described as “brown shirts” or “black shirts” at the time.
Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic.
