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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | May 5, 1997 issue

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The article comments on politics in the U.S. Politician Lenny Bruce said back in 1968, fascism in the U.S. is kept solvent by the left-wing hunger for persecution. Liberals will buy anything any bigot writes. If Norman Thomas, the senior American Socialist, were to be elected President, he would have to find a minority to hate. Of course that's a bit extreme, possibly a bit over the top, but one can see what Bruce was driving at. In an another news, Pacifica has hired, at a reputed cost of $30,000, a notorious unionbusting firm, the American Consulting Group, which had conducted previous antilabor purges at Fortune 500 companies, including Union Carbide.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government; FASCISM; PERSECUTION; SOCIALISTS; LABOR; UNITED States
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