Return? Was it ever not here?
“Fascism is the open terrorist dictatorship of the most reactionary and chovinistic elements of finance capital” german fascism being the most reactionary version of it.
Under this definition, if we look at US and Europa policies as a whole (internal+foreign) we can definitely conclude they are fascist. Only if we separate internal policy from foreign policy amd evaluate them as distinct things can we make a case that these nations are not yet fascist.
Already happening. There are multiple far right militias emerging in Western Europe already. They do combat training and are developing a network that covers multiple countries, often attending eachothers actions. They receive funding from rich people and I suspect the CIA and openly share their visions of a white Europe.
Noticeable groups are Schild en Vrienden (an offspring of Vlaams Belang) from Belgium, Voorpost from BE and NL, Geuzenbond from NL and various German groups who frequently get together. To this day I have yet to see left wing groups like this emerging. I have expressed my concern on this topic to the party on multiple occasions without a result.
And then we have the standard far right parties who keep increasing in popularity, with the regular libs seeing it as a chance to move to the right.
the US has always been fascist toward indigenous and black people
I’d argue that some European countries are already fascist (e.g. France, based on its anti-Muslim laws and its militarized police brutalizing protestors, etc.)
Colonialism isn’t fascism on its own. No doubt its no less bad. Fascism is when a falling empire puts the violence of colonialism on its own citizens and neighbors, rather than overseas.
I don’t see how this applies to the US; indigenous and black people are considered citizens
True, but they are still practically part of different nations. Idk how to tell what fascism is except for when someone praises Hitler or whatever at this point. Liberalism is similar and bad enough that it doesn’t really matter. All I know is it can get worse.
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.
I don’t think we will ever see new flags, new names for armes forces, new constitutions etc … The laws and measures to repress workers and minorities are casually creeping in with no serious resistance.
This precise lack of resistance is, in my opinion, mostly allowed by the deep convictions that western institutions have the democratic potential to reform if upheld correctly by the right people. So basically, a regime change is less appealing to the bourgeoisie, because the old institutions have the power of pacifying the potential revolutionaries.
(Armchair philosophy LARPing in 3… 2… 1..) I’d say that the West is currently is in a stage of boring fascism. We don’t even have the aesthetics of evil, normality is just more and more brutal but nothing changes because brutality is more and more normalised
