“Intellectuals still argue whether Amerika is a fascist country. This concern is typical of the Amerikan left’s flight from reality. … This is actually a manifestation of the authoritarian process seeping into its own psyche.”

—  George Jackson (activist)

Source: Blood in My Eye (1971), p. 120

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