Omnium Gatherum

Fascist politics, the return of antisemitism and the "disconnected present"

Neoliberal capitalism has created a culture of isolation and empty spectacle — and driven the comeback of fascism

https://www.salon.com/2022/12/18/fascist-politics-the-return-of-antisemitism-and-the-disconnected-present/

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Fascist politics, the return of antisemitism and the "disconnected present"

Neoliberal capitalism has created a culture of isolation and empty spectacle — and driven the comeback of fascism

Salon
Dec 19, 2022 at 4:14pmWeb
Show threadatacamacactusDec 19, 2022
@omniumgatherum corporate capture and unrepresentative systems (electoral college, gerrymandering, congress insider trading, unlimited corporate money in politics vs finite citizen influence, UK first past the post) are driving a return of fascism - when people feel they have no say and the deck is stacked against them.
Show threadOmnium GatherumDec 19, 2022
@atacamacactus Not sure those are _the_ driver (because does that come before or after fascism gains power? I feel like there's a bit of both in there.) but there's definitely correlation, and suspect that the capture and unrepresentative systems contribute more to power staying in power once it is gained than in the rise of grasping at power in the first place; if fascism is about power for power's sake, then perhaps; but it's overall a bigger tangle than just that, I suspect.
Show threadatacamacactusDec 19, 2022
@omniumgatherum fair point, I was being too simplistic - was simply trying to list more explicit factors than 'neoliberal capitalism' - which is quite abstract