If you think it’s bad now, it’s gonna get worse in the coming years.
Reading and analysing what’s been happening around us for the past 10-20 years, it’s clear that we’re in a Nazi Germany situation. And when fascism will be here, we will ask “how did that happen?”
The future looks bleak.
I need to make a bot for this post any time fascism gets mentioned.
The western left’s use of the term fascism, is borderline white-supremacist at this point. Fascism was a form of colonialism that died by the 1940s, and is only allowed to be demonized in public discourse, because it was a form of colonialism directed also against white europeans. It was defeated, and Germany / Italy / Japan reverted to the more stable form of government for colonialism: bourgeois parliamentarism.
British, european, and now US colonizers were doing the exact same thing, and killing far more people for hundreds of years in the global south, yet you don’t hear ppl scared of their countries potentially “becoming british colonialists.” This is why you have new leftists terrified that the UK or US or europe “might turn fascist!!”, betraying that the atrocities propagated by those empires against the global south was and is completely acceptable.
I want to expand in this. Colonialism IS a matter of material circumstance and a deliberate program for obtaining material, resources, and labor. It’s an action, a means of doing things.
As the global south rises; it will become more and more difficult to colonize; to imperialize. This DOES NOT MEAN that once colonialism can not colonize abroad, that the methode is defeated and done away with.
What it means is that a colonialism sent into retreat will seek the NEAREST vulnerable group to colonize and extract from. This means it will not target the people half way across the world, but will target even more desperately the community across the street labeled as people who DESERVE the violence. This will mean women, POC, LGBTQIA, and differently abled will once again be the immediate targets of either free labor, prison labor, or the enemies and agents of cultural and metaphysical, and religious corruption and rebellion.
Expect the fight.
Tried to reply to your more recent version of this comment but I don’t think it worked because the post was deleted.
I’d like to know more about this framing - I was under the impression that a key component of fascism is the turning inward of colonialist/imperialist tactics onto members of the working class and specifically minority groups within that class, and less that it was a specific movement aimed at colonizing other nations, white european or otherwise. It’s never seemed to me that the warnings about fascism and the anticommunism it upholds as well as the oppression it brings had any relation, moral or otherwise (not that moralizing has much to do with dialectical materialism), to colonialism.
I haven’t yet read any specific works analyzing fascism, but if you have any recommendations, I’d love to know.
No probs! There are hundreds of books written about fascism, and after reading a few of them, you realize these people are completely ignorant of the history of western colonialism, and unable to say how fascism differs essentially from any colonialist practices. Its such a heterodox term that its almost completely pointless to talk about… ask 10 people to define fascism and you’ll get 10 definitions.
I’d read Aime Cesare - Discourse on Colonialism, its short, and it’s the source of this idea. Not a single person who has tried to define fascism has been able to come up with a differentiator from previous colonialist practices (other than the color line).
There’s also a good chapter on Zak Cope - Divided World Divided class, on Germany, where he explains contrary to the popular “leftist opinion” that fascism was bad for the working classes of Germany, that no, actually the people of germany vastly benefited from its colonialism of eastern and western europe.
All right, thanks! I’ll check those out. On a related note, is Trotsky’s Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It worth my time?
I’d say so yes, it has a better class analysis of fascism than you get with most liberal dissections.