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A No-Nonsense Guide to the Fascist Coup Unfolding Around You
He really nails down the argument I've been making since the pandemic, that we keep getting the conversation deflected from the ultimate root issue: CAPITALISM. As I've said, NAME IT!
Fascist Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism: Confronting the Domestication of the Unimaginable - CounterPunch.org
The long shadow of domestic fascism, defined as a project of racial and cultural cleansing, is with us once again. Americans have seen the ghosts of fascism before in acts of savage colonialism and dispossession, in an era of slavery marked by the brutality of whippings and neck irons, and in a Jim Crow age most obvious in the spectacularized horror of murderous lynchings. More recently we have viewed fascist acts of terror in a politics disappearances and genocidal erasures under the dictatorships of Adolf Hitler, Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and others. And in each case, history has given us a glimpse of what the end of humanity would look like.
When does a formal democracy degenerate into fascism?
It can happen here. “Here” being any country in which capitalism rules. When does a bourgeois formal democracy tip over into fascism? That is a question that needs an answer in many places, certain…
In this documentary, Dr. Michael Parenti defines fascism, describes its characteristics, and explains the role fascism plays in serving the rational interests of capitalists while suppressing communism and other organized worker movements.
Documentary on IWW and Black Workers:
Part 1: https://youtu.be/gXeiGRSxRUU/
Part 2: https://youtu.be/2Ot8mDqy0Pg/
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Chapters:
00:00 - Foreword
00:09 - Introduction
03:51 - Characteristics of Fascism
07:04 - Fascism has Rational Functions
13:34 - How Capitalists Supported Fascism
18:16 - Who did Fascism Support?
22:06 - Privatization and Fascism
25:49 - Conclusions About the Functions of Fascism
29:09 - Afterword by EJ
30:32 - Outro
Annotations:
-01:26: Ukrainian Fascists
-01:30: American Nazi "Bund"
-01:37: Oswald Mosley
-01:58: Arrow Cross Party
-02:03: Balázs László
-02:08: Horia Sima
-02:14: Stepan Bandera
-02:23: Charles De Gaulle
-02:27: British Union of Fascists
-02:35: Augusto Pinochet
-03:52: 1. Glorification of Leadership Cult
-04:06: 2. Glorification of Nation-State
-04:32: 3. Glorification of Military Conquest and Jingoism
-04:31: Fritz Julius Kuhn
-04:55: American Nazi "Bund"
-05:00: 4. Propagation of Folk Mysticism, Xenophobia, and Racism.
-05:18: Nazi Mysticism
-05:56: 5. Opposition to Left-Egalitarian Class Movements, including trade unions, labor parties, and other working class organizations.
-07:17: Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
-07:23: Italian Red Guard
-07:34: Alberto de’ Stefani
-07:53: Italian Red Guard
-08:11: Syndicalist Union Meeting
-08:18: Benito Mussolini, 1910
-08:26: Prince Aimone
-08:32: Excerpt from Encyclopedia Britannica
-08:44: Italian Blackshirts
-08:51: Benito Mussolini, 1919
-08:56: Giovanni Agnelli
-09:02: Fascist Blackshirt Strikebreakers
-09:08: Raimondo Targetti
-09:22: Mussolini
with Business Magnates, 1923
-09:31: Mussolini with Giacomo Acerbo
-09:41: Mussolini with wealthy industrialists, 1922
-09:46: Ettore Conti
with Edda Mussolini
-10:14: Berlin Revolution
-10:19: Brownshirt Brawlers
-10:29: “the bodyguard of capitalism.”
- Daniel Guerin
, Fascism and Big Business
-10:40: Workers’ Protest, 1930
-10:47: Günther Quandt
-10:51: Hans Bahlsen
-10:55:
I.G. Farben board member Fritz ter Meer
meets with Adolf Hitler, 1936
-10:59: Real Tariff Wage in Germany
-11:03: SA Shuts Down Trade Unions, 1933.
-11:13: Paul Von Hindenburg
-11:23: Communist Pamphlet appealing to German Farm Workers
-11:29: Elard von Oldenburg-Januschau
-11:34: Fritz Thyssen
-11:42: Ferdinand Porsche
-11:50: Adolf Hitler with Ferdinand Porsche
-11:56: Friedrich Flick
-12:01: Hitler with Nazi Party members, 1930
-12:06: Hitler at Nuremburg Rally, 1933
-12:16: Fascists make big gains in Germany, 1930
-12:22: Hitler's speech at Coburg, 1935
-12:28: Fritz Reinhardt
-12:36: Brownshirts campaigning, 1933
-12:52: German Federal Election Results, 1924-33
-12:59: German bank run, 1931
-13:09: Out-of-work Germans in the Weimar era
-13:14: Alfred Hugenburg
-13:19: Heinrich Brüning
-13:36: Mussolini at Fiat
-14:06: Nazi Propaganda Poster
-14:15: Hitler with industrialists Walter Borbet and Albert Vögler
-13:37: Hitler with industrialists including Fritz Thyssen
-14:43: Emil Kirdorf
-14:49: Robert Bosch
-14:58: Gregor Strasser
-15:30: Porsche greeting Hitler
-15:49: Rudolf Diels
-16:06: March Action, 1921
-16:12: Antonio Gramsci
-16:25: Communists Rounded Up
-16:35: The Death of Giacomo Matteotti
-16:49: Reichswehr Arms Given to Hitler's Men
-17:21: Brownshirts arrest communists, 1933
-17:34: Four Years of Political Murder chart
-18:51: Duke of Windsor meets Hitler, 1937
-18:58: Oranienburg Concentration Camp, 1933
-19:07: Brownshirts shut down a union hall, 1933
-19:11: Ernst Thälmann
-19:18: German Labor Front
-19:21: Reich Labor Service
-21:11: Austerity Chart
-21:36: Allianz Insurance Company
-22:51: Slave Labor used by German Capitalists
-23:01: Peronne Brothers
-24:09: Hitler with Hjalmar Schacht
-24:28: Revolution of Berlin, 1919
-24:40: 50 Scorn Nazi Labor Camp
Capitalism’s Oldest Trick: Scapegoat Immigrants to Save the Billionaires w/ Prof. Wolff
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem claimed that 1.6 million immigrants have left the United States since Trump took office due to the reign of terror...
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