Black Liberation, Abolition, Racial Fascism >For people of color at various historical moments, the experience of racialization within a liberal democracy could have the valence of fascism. That is to say, while a fascist state and a white supremacist democracy have very different mechanisms of power, the experience of racialized rightlessness within a liberal democracy can make the distinction between it and fascism murky at the level of lived experience. For those racially cast aside outside of liberal democracy’s system of rights, the word ‘fascism’ does not always conjure up a distant and alien social order.

"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.'"