Fascism 101 (aka Right Wing Disinformation not Left)

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TikTok · Nope Brigade | Ph.D. Candidate
TikTok · Nope Brigade | Ph.D. Candidate
277.7K likes, 14.9K comments. “Not everything is fascism! We need a better story of who we are that inspires all of us! Hope this helps! ”
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14 quotes about fascism that everyone should read
14 quotes about fascism that everyone should read
The neo-nationalism of Brexit and the election of the nativist Donald Trump have rejuvenated far-right politics in a way that's not been seen since the 1930s.To help shed more light on this hateful, hate-mongering political philosophy, here are 14 quotes from academics, thinkers, authors and politicians who lived or studied the horrors of a fascist state.
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14 quotes about fascism that everyone should read
TESLA = TRUMP
TESLA = TRUMP
Last night, we visited Tesla’s European HQ in Amsterdam to tell the story of how one of the world’s richest people bought the ‘digital town square’, then used it to peddle disinformation and help push Donald Trump to victory. There are many reasons why Trump won the US election. But the use of vast oligarchic wealth, like Elon Musk’s, to change our media environment is a key part of the story. Trump’s victory could add 4bn tonnes of CO2 to US emissions by 2030. Despite owning an electric car company, Musk is now a dangerous impediment to climate action.
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Trump’s former chief of staff says he fits ‘fascist’ definition and prefers ‘dictator approach’ | CNN Politics
Trump’s former chief of staff says he fits ‘fascist’ definition and prefers ‘dictator approach’ | CNN Politics
John Kelly, the retired Marine general who was Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff, entered the 2024 fray in stunning fashion, saying the former president fits “into the general definition of fascist” and wanted the “kind of generals Hitler had” in a series of interviews published Tuesday.
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Trump’s former chief of staff says he fits ‘fascist’ definition and prefers ‘dictator approach’ | CNN Politics
What is FASCISM?
What is FASCISM?
https://www.patreon.com/HorsesPT https://www.instagram.com/horses.ig/ SOURCES: The Anatomy of Fascism, by Robert O. Paxton Fascism, by Stanley G. Payne Fascism, by Roger Griffin A History of Fascism, 1914–1945, by Stanley G. Payne The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, by Gustave Le Bon Music: Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen - Before Daybreak Magnus Ludvigsson - Valse Triste Niçoise Gavin Luke - Late Night Sketches Gavin Luke - Chance Encounter Magnus Ludvigsson - Circus Leaving Town Franz Gordon - Theme for Autumn Franz Gordon - Raincoat Waltz Rikard From - Hidden Beneath
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What is FASCISM?
The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think
The 10 tactics of fascism | Jason Stanley | Big Think
The 10 tactics of fascism, with Jason Stanley Subscribe to Big Think on YouTube ►► https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink Up next ►►"Never Again?" How fascism hijacks democracies over and over https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye4jKSNHhms Fascism is a cult of the leader, who promises national restoration in the face of supposed humiliation by immigrants, leftists, liberals, minorities, homosexuals, women, in the face of what the fascist leader says is a takeover of the country's media, cultural institutions, schools by these forces. Fascist movements typically, though not invariably, rest on an urban/rural divide. The cities are where there's decadence, where the elites congregate, where there's immigrants, and where there's criminality. Each of these individuals alone is not in and of itself fascist, but you have to worry when they're all grouped together, seeing the other as less than. Those moments are the times when societies need to worry about fascism. Read the video transcript: https://bigthink.com/videos/what-is-fascism/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Jason Stanley: Jason Stanley is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Before coming to Yale in 2013, he was Distinguished Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. Stanley is the author of Know How; Languages in Context; Knowledge and Practical Interests, which won the American Philosophical Association book prize; and How Propaganda Works, which won the PROSE Award for Philosophy from the Association of American Publishers. He writes about authoritarianism, propaganda, free speech, mass incarceration, and other topics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Review, The Guardian, Project Syndicate and The Chronicle of Higher Education, among other publications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Read more of our stories on fascism: “Never Again?” How fascism hijacks democracies over and over ►► https://bigthink.com/videos/rob-riemen-never-again-how-fascism-hijacks-democracies-over-and-over Fascism and conspiracy theories: The symptoms of broken communication ►► https://bigthink.com/the-present/fascism-and-conspiracy-theories-the-symptoms-of-broken-communication What Fascism Really Is — And What It Isn’t ►► https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/for-your-next-political-argument-what-fascism-really-is ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About Big Think | Smarter Faster™ ► Big Think The leading source of expert-driven, educational content. With thousands of videos, featuring experts ranging from Bill Clinton to Bill Nye, Big Think helps you get smarter, faster by exploring the big ideas and core skills that define knowledge in the 21st century. ► Big Think+ Make your business smarter, faster: https://bigthink.com/plus/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want more Big Think? ► Daily editorial features: https://bigthink.com/popular/ ► Get the best of Big Think right to your inbox: https://bigthink.com/st/newsletter ► Facebook: https://bigth.ink/facebook ► Instagram: https://bigth.ink/Instagram ► Twitter: https://bigth.ink/twitter
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Fascism’s 'Legal Phase' Has Begun - PopularResistance.Org
Fascism’s 'Legal Phase' Has Begun - PopularResistance.Org
When Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.’s plummet toward authoritarianism. As a result, we are at this moment in a state of free-fall, the culmination of a state-level Legislative And Enforcement Landscape that directly mirrors Jim Crow — or as fascism scholar Jason Stanley recently put it, “America is now in fascism’s legal phase.” Although we do have ways of fighting back, the situation is dire. We often hear that the U.S.’s founding documents, courts and institutions make it immune to despotism, but this claim is simply false and erases our country’s troubling history with white supremacy — one the GOP is poised to reinvigorate.
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Fascism’s 'Legal Phase' Has Begun - PopularResistance.Org
Why American Fascism Is On The Rise
Why American Fascism Is On The Rise
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Race Consciousness: Fascism and Frank Herbert’s “Dune” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Race Consciousness: Fascism and Frank Herbert’s “Dune” | Los Angeles Review of Books
Referenced in https://youtu.be/vusjRPQwUmc?si=J12Tnn4o3fBnjZ1B
The alt-right now regularly denounces or promotes science fiction films as part of its recruiting strategy: fascist Twitter popularized the “white genocide” hashtag during a boycott campaign against inclusive casting in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But Villeneuve’s film seemed to provoke greater outrage than normal because Herbert’s book is such a key text for the alt-right.
but geek fascists see the novel as a blueprint for the future.
As Norman Spinrad suggested, fans are willing to accept a narrative about strongmen exterminating alien hordes when it is presented in fantastic form.
Both Faye’s and Herbert’s worlds represent impossible attempts to square the circle of fusing the destructive dynamism of capitalist modernization with the stable order prized by traditionalism.
Beyond a shared affinity for space-age aristocrats, Faye and Herbert see the sovereign as one who is capable of disciplined foresight. Drawing on the Austrian School economist Hans-Hermann Hoppe, many thinkers on the alt-right believe that only men from genetically superior populations are capable of delaying gratification and working toward long-term goals. The alt-right asserts that white men hold an exclusive claim over the future. According to these white nationalists, science fiction is in their blood.
Fascists are repulsed by actually existing modernity but enamored with its innovations. To resolve this dilemma, they claim that capitalism’s expansionary and self-revolutionizing tendencies are actually inborn properties of the white race. In what Moishe Postone would call the capital fetish, white nationalists insist that capital’s propensity to break through every limit and remake the world is merely the external manifestation of a Dionysian drive or Faustian sprit infusing Aryan blood. Conversely, fascists displace all of capitalism’s negative qualities onto racialized others — especially Jews — who are blamed for the anomie, atomization, and alienation of modern life.
As Joshua Pearson has shown, Paul acts like the ultimate neoliberal subject. He is a ruthless entrepreneur with the flexibility to exploit even the most speculative of opportunities. Creative destruction is part of his appeal. Some reactionaries are willing to accept the most punishing of regimes as long as they share the privilege of white skin with the CEO.
Once his antagonists are out of the way, Paul uses this ability to carry out a multi-millennia plan for civilizational renewal that requires him to sacrifice billions. As he worries about his grim destiny, Paul begins to look like the Nazi Einsatzgruppen who pitied themselves for being forced to endure the difficult task of committing mass killings to build the thousand-year Reich.
we cannot forget for a moment that their political program necessarily ends in genocide. When Spencer presided over the Unite the Right rally that ended in Heather Heyer’s murder, he allowed the polite mask to fall long enough to reveal that even the most erudite or fanciful aspects of his public persona are motivated by a will toward brutal violence and racial domination.
Although the game is clearly tongue in cheek — often falling in the same satirical tradition as 2000 AD’s Judge Dredd — many misanthropic young men missed the joke and used the setting instead to play out their macho fantasies of dominance and submission. Matthew Heimbach, who founded the Traditionalist Worker Party and built an alliance between Neo-Nazis and Klansmen, radicalized himself in part through his devotion to the Warhammer 40,000 game world. In 2016, alt-right partisans circulated memes with Trump’s face pasted onto the armored body of the God-Emperor of Mankind, casting themselves as fanatical shock troops willing to die in his service.
Any speculative text that contains Jews, Muslims, or people of color therefore becomes a threat to their entire political project. This is why recent developments in fields such as Afrofuturism and Black horror are so crucial. They provide a critical alternative to the alt-right’s exterminationist fantasy of an all-white future. Just as importantly, they offer readers other ways of thinking about time that do not fall in line with the fascist dream of a history that unfolds step-by-step along the lines of the Aryan dictator’s master plan.
Paul’s army of desert guerillas, the Fremen, clearly owe something to Arabic and Islamic cultures, and Paul’s own genealogy defies the fascist demand for racial purity. The alt-right has tried to wrestle Islamophobic and Antisemitic messages from the book but they are stymied by its refusal to map existing ethnic categories onto the characters.
Herbert himself saw the series as a critique of authoritarianism demonstrating for his readers that “superheroes are disastrous for humankind.” Dune’s aristocrats replaced artificial intelligences with people deformed to act like soulless machines. As Paul becomes the guidance mechanism for a vast social system, he loses touch with humanity. Seeing the terror he has wrought, he plots to end his own despotic command over humankind’s fate. The God-Emperor in Warhammer 40,000 does not get this far: he is locked in suspended animation while the empire he built decays around him. These are obviously not ideals worth emulating.
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Race Consciousness: Fascism and Frank Herbert’s “Dune” | Los Angeles Review of Books