I wish centrists would realise this is about more than Corbyn.
They can whine all they like, continue to convince themselves the Left are a lunatic fringe. It won't change the social forces at play.
Fascism, or some form of ecosocialism.
They have to pick one eventually.
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It won't work, even when it does.
They will use climate change the same way the Nazis used socialism: as a cover for a more exclusive dominance of the White rich people.
Only all inclusive and internationalist action stands any chance of success.
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I have a bit of a contention with that. I think ecofascism is much more likely to come out of China or India.
Both of those countries are about to get hit very hard by climate change. And they're much more powerful, both economically and militarily, than they get credit for.
While it's a historically accurate picture of fascism, at least in a European context, it's also a bit of a racist trope that doesn't give other people enough credit.
The Japanese might well have conquered half of Asia, had they not pissed off the US at the worst time possible.
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As I was writing it, I was mulling Japan. But I think that *that's* the orientalist trope, to label them fascist.
They shared many brutal characteristics, but they were also *incredibly* different.
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Yes. Currently.
It is also currently the most expedient path for China to set itself as diametrically opposed to the US. But, under, the same model of climate devastation, the US is toppled when the West coast desertifies itself.
I am not saying it *will* happen, though
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Authoritarianism, sure.
But I see the West's culture as being a far greater, longer, and more natural hotbed of fascism than a country with communist roots.
For me, fascism is capitalism in collapse. It's an extreme of something quintessentially western.
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Well, I understand where this argument comes from, but I disagree with almost every single component of it in the present.
And the India problem we can thank the UK for, considering it was Gandhi's solution, so it's not like you can't export fascistic tendencies.
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But I don't think we can deal with climate change without what the West would call authoritarian.
The West takes hyper-individualism for granted. Rights are individual based.
Our culture, our media, will inevitably see the necessary action as authoritarian in that regard...
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..but for me, and most globally I'd wager, the continued imposition of such hyper-individualism, at this moment in history, is way more extreme and fundamentalist, and just as needing of authoritarianism to continue, as Eco-authoritarianism.
And with a much worse outcome, too.