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Why "Neither Left Nor Right" Just Means Right Wing | Bonapartism

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Paria sans portefeuille May 31, 2025

"AN AUTOCRAT takes over. Why does the legislature permit him to hijack government, pervert institutions and norms, and unburden them of their legitimate power? Why would a representative body like the US Congress willingly injure its own authority? Karl Marx gave an answer in 1852, in his fiery postmortem for the French Republic, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte."

"He’s a Cretin but We’ll Manage Him"

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/hes-a-cretin-but-well-manage-him/
#USpol #trumpism #bonapartism #politicalTheory

peotr26 Oct 16, 2023

It saddens me to say this, but we can now consider #France as an "illiberal" state with others like Hungary or Turkey.

#Bonapartism is a plague here in France. The first time it hurt democracy was in 1799, then there was 1851, and finally there is 2023.

Simulated Chollas 🍉 🥭 🌵Apr 7, 2023

“For all the caviling about the ‘deep state’ of professional bureaucrats, the federal bureaucracy was the real center of Trump’s power, not the Senate or the courts. A major constituency for Trump existed within the security apparatus itself: he was endorsed by the ICE union and it’s been revealed that DHS attempted to politicize intelligence and enforcement efforts on his behalf.” https://johnganz.substack.com/p/the-dishonorable-society-part-3 #trumpism #fascism #bonapartism