I had the thought just the other day that the US might be best described as “post-fascist”, seeing as how elimination of any real left is an already completed project, suppression of marginalized groups and workers is fully institutionalized, and then there’s of course the historical slavery and genocide that most people now just shrugs at if they’re even mentioned all.
seeing as how elimination of any real left is an already completed project, suppression of marginalized groups and workers is fully institutionalized
Yeah that’s a big factor too that I forgot to mention, I remember when Biden just straight up called off that big railworkers (I think) strike, or how Macron can push his retirement age reform even through mass contestation. We talk about fascists ultimately serving capitalism to fight violently fight the worker militancy in germany and italy (I read an interview once where an old german guy said that if you moved into their city, and you didn’t immediatly join a party or a labour union, you would get beaten up and harassed, because it was assumed that you were there to be a scab, that’s the level of militancy there was), but you don’t need that kind of violence to defeat the current level of militancy, you just sign the act to make the strike illegal and workers understand that if they keep going you’ll send in the national guard, or, like Macron, you wait them out.
In a way, it’s like you don’t NEED fascism when centrists can accomplish some of the same goals.
I had the thought just the other day that the US might be best described as “post-fascist”, seeing as how elimination of any real left is an already completed project, suppression of marginalized groups and workers is fully institutionalized, and then there’s of course the historical slavery and genocide that most people now just shrugs at if they’re even mentioned all.
I am admittedly an idiot though, so yeah.
That part about you being an idiot is the only part you’re wrong about 🤗
Yeah that’s a big factor too that I forgot to mention, I remember when Biden just straight up called off that big railworkers (I think) strike, or how Macron can push his retirement age reform even through mass contestation. We talk about fascists ultimately serving capitalism to fight violently fight the worker militancy in germany and italy (I read an interview once where an old german guy said that if you moved into their city, and you didn’t immediatly join a party or a labour union, you would get beaten up and harassed, because it was assumed that you were there to be a scab, that’s the level of militancy there was), but you don’t need that kind of violence to defeat the current level of militancy, you just sign the act to make the strike illegal and workers understand that if they keep going you’ll send in the national guard, or, like Macron, you wait them out.
In a way, it’s like you don’t NEED fascism when centrists can accomplish some of the same goals.