1. Maus. Whoopi Goldberg. Swastikas (some ironic, some not) at the so-called Truckers Convoy in Ottawa. Lots of fascist discourse going around but much of it shows a decreasing awareness of what fascism actually was.
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4. John has a very fruitful way of thinking about fascism as a process & the way it parallels (or sometimes doesn't parallel) contemporary anti-systems right. It's a very fair minded argument, charitable to critics. I had a very fruitful talk with him.https://jeetheer.substack.com/p/fascism-as-metaphor-and-fact?r=bh54&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email …
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"Populist rule amidst repression of the left and leftist institutions" was the definition I read in Jacobin once.
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I think that's intrinsic but not exhaustive, & I think ganz and jeet's definitions don't conflict with that
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This seems like a contrived definition to suit the current main use of it being used to describe republicans
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Whats wrong with the corporatism plus authoritarian definition, besides to labelling maybe too many countries
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I'm not sure that definition gets to the heart of the authoritarian ethno-nationalism.
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Just put something about a spectre of decline (like a depression or a war), and the idea of further decline, thus giving you permission to do horrible things with the Caesarism... ...and the tweet Jeet just used fits. It is hard to cram it all in with a single tweet.
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Bingo!!!
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im sure this is discussed john's pieces but isnt it important to note its the 'reactionary' politics that emerges in lib democracies - then you also incorporate the anti-communist elements in fascism (communism being the lefty politics that emerges in gridlocked lib democracies)
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