| Morlock Elloi on Tue, 25 Dec 2018 03:06:35 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime> inverted fascism |
" This underlines the dramatic inversion of class–nation relations that is another contrast with the 1930s. In the US today, a pro-globalist professional layer is pitted against a ‘nationalist’ white working class—a configuration that is almost the opposite to that of interwar fascism. Classic ‘populist’ movements of the Peronist type, which are not much in evidence today, linked nationalist working classes and nationalist white-collar workers, or ‘new petty bourgeoisies’. Fascism, in contrast, emerged in contexts in which the political leadership of the working class, the communist parties, remained internationalist, whereas the petty bourgeoisie swung to extreme nationalism. Far from being a form of populism, fascism was premised on its failure. Socialism, at least in the advanced world, has emerged where both the new professional strata and the leadership of the working class are oriented internationally: an unfortunate rarity. The contemporary new rights differ from these in attempting to mobilize a nationally oriented working class against a globally oriented ‘new petty bourgeoisie’. "
[ The unmentionable obvious solution is internationalizing the proles as well, but first subdivisions of identity politics' freak empowerments need to be handled: it's just too much work to unite lesbians of all countries, then homos of all countries, then trans of all countries, then ... ]
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