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.
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.