How to classify the contemporary hard right? It’s postfascism or postNazism. It’s beyond neo-Nazism & neo-fascism, which were still closely tied to regime memory. Similarly, the hard left is postcommunist. Zizek & Badiou are to the left what Moldbug & Land are to the right.
The “black sun” is a pagan symbol. But it’s mostly been used by neo-Nazis as a slightly obscure SS symbol that can substitute for the swastika. I’ve noticed that this symbol is bleeding into popular consciousness. See: Shakira; Jonathan Meades’s show on slang (Meades leftist).pic.twitter.com/IOQGSdt4Ye
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What does the emergence of this symbol in popular culture portend? I don’t think it’s a literal return of Nazism of fascism, but there’s a shift to the paternal & authoritarian in the West. Since WWII, the material and liberal has predominated. This symbol represents a return.
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(*maternal and liberal) Full history of the “black sun” can be found in Goodrick-Clark’s “Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity” (2003), & deeper roots of Nazi esotericism “The Occult Roots of Nazism” (1985). See also: Indiana Jones; Wolfenstein 3D
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Goodrick-Clark held the position “Professor of Western Esotericism”, which I think is a fantastic job title.
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Addendum: About 2 years ago I spontaneously started researching fascism. I looked into Mishima, Malaparte (La Pelle), FN, Hitler. I think I sensed some deeper movement in the world, a movement back towards the right that was subterranean. Again, not fascism but the hard right.
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It can be very tiresome to identify every other figure as “proto-fascist” or whatever, but the comedian Russell Brand is actually quite fascistic: he is charismatic, an orator, believes in spirituality, & is anti-capitalist.
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Brand interviews Jordan Peterson. Brand hates the corporations. Peterson hates “postmodern” domination in the unis. What neither man manages is to do is connect the dots: the “postmodern” unis produce the ideology that coordinates the corporate-state system.
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Found a black sun displayed prominently in this music videohttps://youtu.be/PbYOFy71DQc
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