"I think the Gujarat pogrom is the canary in the coal mine, and it's where all the techniques that we're seeing today begin. It's where we first learn that popular violence is not discrediting to the far right when it's associated with them. It actually can be an electoral advantage, and it was for the BJP ... So in this sense, it's hard, muscular capitalism, shorn of politically correct welfarist, environmentalist, fluffy, woke constraints."
#RichardSeymour, 2024
I really must get some reading glasses and a copy of Disaster Nationalism.
I haven't come across someone making this much sense, about something so important to contemporary politics, since I read Excommunicate Me From the Church of Social Justice by Frances Lee, and Exiting the Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher.
@strypey It's great. The Disenchanted Earth is even better, I think. I want to read The Twittering Machine next.
I 1st knew about him in an episode of Acid Horizon podcast https://pod.link/1512615438
@no2nsense
> Acid Horizon podcast
That's a fantastic podcast recommendation. Subscribed, thanks!
Strypey
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