As an institutional phenomenon, neofascism differs from its predecessor in how it strongly favours neoimperialism over traditional imperialism: financial solutions over military ones (when possible), and formally independent states nevertheless depending heavily on their neoimperial masters. The original Fascist empires practised this as well, but to a smaller extent; the lack of nuclear weapons made classical military conquests and outright annexations easier.
The dissipation of the pseudodemocracy may be slower, too, but otherwise we can expect to see a great deal of what we saw with Fascism. Presently Rome, for example, is aggressing against the trade unions, though it has not yet annihilated them. Ukraine’s war on workers’ rights has been more successful, but even then it has not finished the job of defeating the proletariat quite yet. Should these ultranationalist régimes replace the trade unions with a bourgeois apologist organization, we’ll know that neofascism has become firmly established.
Should these ultranationalist régimes replace the trade unions with a bourgeois apologist organization, we’ll know that neofascism has become firmly established.
solidarność in Poland is basically that. A “union” that scabs other unions, and its political activity is supporting PiS, defending priest pedophiles etc. Even their “union” activity looks more like something between the usual yellow union and church rosary circle.
As an institutional phenomenon, neofascism differs from its predecessor in how it strongly favours neoimperialism over traditional imperialism: financial solutions over military ones (when possible), and formally independent states nevertheless depending heavily on their neoimperial masters. The original Fascist empires practised this as well, but to a smaller extent; the lack of nuclear weapons made classical military conquests and outright annexations easier.
The dissipation of the pseudodemocracy may be slower, too, but otherwise we can expect to see a great deal of what we saw with Fascism. Presently Rome, for example, is aggressing against the trade unions, though it has not yet annihilated them. Ukraine’s war on workers’ rights has been more successful, but even then it has not finished the job of defeating the proletariat quite yet. Should these ultranationalist régimes replace the trade unions with a bourgeois apologist organization, we’ll know that neofascism has become firmly established.
solidarność in Poland is basically that. A “union” that scabs other unions, and its political activity is supporting PiS, defending priest pedophiles etc. Even their “union” activity looks more like something between the usual yellow union and church rosary circle.