Indeed, perhaps the best way of understanding Trumpism as a political form isn’t through comparison with traditional political “isms” like fascism or populism but in light of a type of collective make-believe
We’ve lost the luxury of pretending that we can sit this one out, above the fray, our hands unsullied by political engagement. We now must give individual voice to the collective nightmare of living under a kind of bumbling fascism, by turns cruel, incompetent and terrifying, racist, ...
However, the MAGA idiots who refuse to admit that fascism is bad and that their fascist attempt in January happened and was a bad thing won’t be pushing through voter suppression laws, laws against the internet, or whatever else lunacy they’re going to come up with when their God-king ...
‘does an excellent job of telling the story of antifascist movements in multiple countries… a good schematic overview of a radical approach to fighting fascism that points to the high points of mass struggle, the importance of a united left, and the need to confront fascism wherever it arise...
the TECHNOLOGICAL antigen to the poisonous ideological formations of mainstream tech. And as such, we believed, they would save us from being overrun by techno-fascism. A decade later and one has to wonder if the Anonymous experiment was ever more than another media tool, a compromised pseudo-...
The TV. The box. The telly. The small screen. The television set (if you want to be formal). Call it what you want, we’re living in its golden age. Long gone is the time where all you had was a fistful of channels on your nan’s terrestrial static magnet; now, you could do...
I could have used the term ‘Populist’ however the Powers That Be (PTB) manipulate this word, as with so many others, in a very pejorative way. It is the same with their description of the other side of the story told being described as ‘Alt media’ and Fake News – intimating ...
It is not always easy to behave heroically. It is far easier to blend in with the status quoto not rock the boatto trade shortterm expediency for a greater vision. Consider what impact one courageous person can accomplish. When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on ...
I did not like the out of control spending but told myself that with a second term he would make strides at attacking that issue too. All of this while Democrats paid for a fake dossier and used traitors to shop the info to the media. I watched the media run this story knowing it ...
time). Corporations want it so that they can make money off you and also because they need to control governments. The unlovely union between the two, which we are increasingly getting to enjoy in the industrialised world, has an unlovely name, bestowed on it back in the 1920s: fascism....