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The author is right on at least one point, we do not really have fascism in the west right now, it's only protofascism. Even the Italian 'postfascism' is in fac
by orwin 3y ago
The author is right on at least one point, we do not really have fascism in the west right now, it's only protofascism. Even the Italian 'postfascism' is in fact proto-fascism.
Its quite easy to notice if you read enough political books of the early 20th century, and compare them to current day nationalists/supremacists.
They don't have finished ideas. They don't have much ideas at all to be honest. It's mostly stupidity without a plan or vision. Their books (not a lot of them tbh) are either plain and dumb rehash of 1930s books, or interesting rehash of 1890s ideas (hello Renaud Camus, if you want, I know other books you can leech of, send me a message!).
I think they're just a tool to get political power.
- Zigurd 3y agoThe American far right is mostly too illiterate to understand, much less formulate a coherent fascist outlook. So we get social engineering hobbyists manipulating Christian White Nationalists to blindly, if incoherently, support fascism in return for support on taking the bodily autonomy of women, for example. This is an issue of very limited value to fascists except by way of coalition building.
- orwin 3y agoYes, I wrote a paragraph on that, but I removed it at it was caustic and a bit insensitive, but to me, this neo-fascism in the west and in the USA in particular have no aim, doesn't really change policy, and in general have no agency. At the most, its kind of the useful idiot of this weird Christo-conservatism.
- jacquesm 3y agoThat's interesting. It sees the beast and that the beast has no direction. But that could change at the drop of a hat and then suddenly you go from 'no problem' to 'lots of problems'.