Mastodawn

The second talk I went to was a political-historical analysis of tech and large industry in the Weimar Republic (pre-WW2 Germany).
https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/KXJ3YK/

In essence, it both shows remarkable parallels between big tech now and large industries then. Importantly it includes a critique of the typical communist analysis (which is summarized by "hinter dem Faschismus steht das Kapital" - meaning Capital is actively pushing fascism).

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Techno-Faschismus - Damals und Heute Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech

Der Vortrag setzt an der aktuellen Techno-Faschismus-Debatte an und kontextualisiert diese vor dem Hintergrund der Debatte über den Zusammenhang von Wirtschaft, Technologie und Nationalsozialismus. Fokus ist die Einführung in zentrale Konzepte & Debatten (zB Reaktionärer Modernismus, Primat-Debatte) sowie Hoch-Technologien & Industrien (zB Treibstoff-Synthese/IG Farben, Flugmotoren/BMW).

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Rens van der Heijden 3d ago

While there is individual fascist capitalists, it is empirically false to claim a direct causal connection - instead capitalists behave as opportunists and use fascism to achieve their own aims (both then and now). This is important because the ideological and psychological were essential components in the rise of fascism - and it is suggested that this is again the case here.

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Rens van der Heijden

Then, communist resistance against Hitler did not achieve liberation (though they were close with the nearly successful assassination of Hitler and Nazi leadership). In understood the talk as arguing we should not make the same mistakes from back then and avoid a separation between the communist and the broader societal analysis of fascism in order to fight it effectively. There was also an analysis of the ideology and psychology that I can't reconstruct from my notes.

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