I’d say it counts as fascism. Manifest destiny was the beginning of modern fascism which itself evolved from european imperialism. It was imported back by Germany and Italy where we all know what happened, but then that strain of fascism made its way back westward through things like Operation Paperclip. Immediately afterward it was injected into the Middle East in the form of the birth of the settler colonial project known as Israel.
There it became a test bed for all sorts of new tools of oppression, but what that has done has also bread a strain of revolutionary resistance that is probably the strongest we have ever seen. It’s like they are fucking around and creating the revolutionary equivalent of antibiotic resistant bacteria (yes I understand the problematic implications of comparing people to bacteria but it is the best analogy for what I am trying to get across that I could think of).
I wish I could say the continued support for Israel is shocking, but I was in high school back in 2001 and I remember vividly being called a terrorist sympathizer for not wanting to nuke Afghanistan.
They definitely shape each other, but I’m saying they’re two sides of the same coin rather than exactly the same thing.
Materially speaking: settler-colonialism is inflicted on conquered and oppressed people who never had citizenship within the State; fascism is inflicted on citizens who become conquered and oppressed by what was once their own State.
Fascism is settler-colonialism turned inward. Settler-colonialism is outward facing fascism.
I’d say it counts as fascism. Manifest destiny was the beginning of modern fascism which itself evolved from european imperialism. It was imported back by Germany and Italy where we all know what happened, but then that strain of fascism made its way back westward through things like Operation Paperclip. Immediately afterward it was injected into the Middle East in the form of the birth of the settler colonial project known as Israel.
There it became a test bed for all sorts of new tools of oppression, but what that has done has also bread a strain of revolutionary resistance that is probably the strongest we have ever seen. It’s like they are fucking around and creating the revolutionary equivalent of antibiotic resistant bacteria (yes I understand the problematic implications of comparing people to bacteria but it is the best analogy for what I am trying to get across that I could think of).
I wish I could say the continued support for Israel is shocking, but I was in high school back in 2001 and I remember vividly being called a terrorist sympathizer for not wanting to nuke Afghanistan.
They definitely shape each other, but I’m saying they’re two sides of the same coin rather than exactly the same thing.
Materially speaking: settler-colonialism is inflicted on conquered and oppressed people who never had citizenship within the State; fascism is inflicted on citizens who become conquered and oppressed by what was once their own State.
Fascism is settler-colonialism turned inward. Settler-colonialism is outward facing fascism.