Is it just the RCP? Are they crying wolf?

I'm not sure this is just a propaganda tactic. They clearly believe that something qualitatively different is happening in the US government -- and I share the fear.

Is it just "compelling material interest" that leads the ruling class to install fascism, or is it more complicated than that?

It can be argued that there are "compelling" interests that have unleashed the new war against everyone -- and the changes in legal structure, collapse of the Democrats as anything like an effective opposition and well-developed social base for fascism are all real.

Delay. Gonzalez. Rumsfeld. These are names we know. What about the Christian fundamentalists who are largely running the Pentagon? What about the purges of the CIA? What is the effect of media consolidation? And so on...

I think the RCP's analysis is correct in terms of the danger we are facing. I also think that radicals need to think through what the implications of it are for what they are doing now. The right isn't playing around. They are very focused and intent on putting this country together in a vastly more repressive and militarist way. They publically defend torture -- something the Nazis didn't even do!

The distribution of the RCP paper is also something to take note of. It's not enough to put flyers up in hip bars and East Village bathrooms. People need to be thinking in the millions with everything they do.