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Fascism is inseparable from capitalism. The working class within the imperial core is normally protected from it, but that doesn’t mean fascism starts the moment this class is made to care — ie the state’s foreign policy turns inward, and finally the workers’ true position in society is laid bare. That was true all along, and all along fascist policies have been active in other parts of the world.
The problem with understanding fascism as a recent phenomenon is it narrows the horizon of resistance. We ought to dream bigger, not just for a return to a time when fascism didn’t apply domestically, but to a future when fascism ceases to exist.
Do we have good theory explaining that fascism is within capitalism's essence?
https://redsails.org/really-existing-fascism/
Is the best article I have seen on this topic.
I would probably even go further than this article. There is no special significance of fascism, both liberalism and fascism are the actions/ideologies of the same actors in service of the same system. Creating a division between the 2 and then treating 1 as a special threat leaves us with confused tactics.
The category of fascism is to take seriously the PR of say, someone like Al capone as a dignified mobster in comparison to the brutish ones.
Our analysis of threats should be far more fine grained and far more materialistic.
Gabriel Rockhill just gave a 10 min talk about this 2 days ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S1N4F-IPio
He’s not the first to say this stuff, but he does bring it together nicely.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: