I can’t stop thinking that the USA was always fascist, even though the word wasn’t yet invented. The fasces appears all over federal buildings, currency, and it’s right on the dollar bill: Novus Ordo Seclorum. The right wing voters were right again, “New World Order.” That has me thinking that’s why they supported Hitler, until he threatened US business interests, and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn we actively collaborated with his regime.
Originally as distinct manifestations, both fascism and neoliberalism emerge from the ideological need to contain the expansion of socialism and Marxism. Furthermore, their dissimilar appearances obscure the central feature that unites them. For one can hardly speak of a singular fascism or a less singular neoliberalism. Not only the former but also the latter are entangled in so many knots, such multifaceted strings, that it becomes impossible for one to claim the former or the latter as homogenous doctrines.
João Romeiro Hermeto in Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation 2025 (iskra books)
It’s complicated like one might argue fascism started in Italy as a response to the growing popularity of communism in the late 1910’s, but all the ingredients already existed in colonial projects, racism etc.
I also don’t think US history can be reduced to just proto-fascism either when there have been emancipatory wars and struggles as well. The civil rights movement is just as much part of US history as chattel slavery and the genocide of the indigenous.
I can’t stop thinking that the USA was always fascist, even though the word wasn’t yet invented. The fasces appears all over federal buildings, currency, and it’s right on the dollar bill: Novus Ordo Seclorum. The right wing voters were right again, “New World Order.” That has me thinking that’s why they supported Hitler, until he threatened US business interests, and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn we actively collaborated with his regime.
João Romeiro Hermeto in Phenomenology of the Capitalist Eternisation 2025 (iskra books)
Ratking
What? What does that mean?
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/rat-king.htm
I do not understand. Rats are cute animals
It’s complicated like one might argue fascism started in Italy as a response to the growing popularity of communism in the late 1910’s, but all the ingredients already existed in colonial projects, racism etc.
I also don’t think US history can be reduced to just proto-fascism either when there have been emancipatory wars and struggles as well. The civil rights movement is just as much part of US history as chattel slavery and the genocide of the indigenous.