Well, the number of straight up capitalists and conservatives in the comments is frightening. I did not know Zizek has this many right-wing fans. Also, you can see the impact of Prager U in the comments. So many comments with the same talking points as their China capitalism video.
On to Zizek's argument. Yeah, authoritarian governance with capitalist economics...that's fascism. And yeah, that's what a lot of countries are heading towards. He mentioned Modi and India, but it's also true of Brazil, Turkey, Philippines, Israel, France etc etc etc. Just so many countries in both the Global North and the Global South giving in to religious or ethnic or whatever supremacist views. And yeah, all of them, somehow happen to be hyper-capitalists supported by big industry in their own country and from abroad.
But there are also revolutions happening against them all the time. Recently, in India, BJP got humiliated in a couple of major state elections. There are far, far more people today that are openly critical of Modi, BJP, RSS etc. Look at how Lula is polling before he's even announced his candidacy. MAS, of course, won in Bolivia. These aren't nothing. There are rebellions and uprisings happening all the time. Yes, it's harder and rarer for us to win - we don't have capital on our side. But we have labor on our side and that's all that matters. They can keep the people hooked on anger and hatred and fear for only so long.
I have this funny feeling that the Naxalites and movements like MAS are going to spearhead global communist revolution. The brigades of explicitly Maoist feminists resisting gangrape and organizing massive strikes, while having folk songs made of their struggle, are the things revolutions are made of.
I don't want to be too hopeful but the accounts I've read do give me some.
Well, the number of straight up capitalists and conservatives in the comments is frightening. I did not know Zizek has this many right-wing fans. Also, you can see the impact of Prager U in the comments. So many comments with the same talking points as their China capitalism video.
On to Zizek's argument. Yeah, authoritarian governance with capitalist economics...that's fascism. And yeah, that's what a lot of countries are heading towards. He mentioned Modi and India, but it's also true of Brazil, Turkey, Philippines, Israel, France etc etc etc. Just so many countries in both the Global North and the Global South giving in to religious or ethnic or whatever supremacist views. And yeah, all of them, somehow happen to be hyper-capitalists supported by big industry in their own country and from abroad.
But there are also revolutions happening against them all the time. Recently, in India, BJP got humiliated in a couple of major state elections. There are far, far more people today that are openly critical of Modi, BJP, RSS etc. Look at how Lula is polling before he's even announced his candidacy. MAS, of course, won in Bolivia. These aren't nothing. There are rebellions and uprisings happening all the time. Yes, it's harder and rarer for us to win - we don't have capital on our side. But we have labor on our side and that's all that matters. They can keep the people hooked on anger and hatred and fear for only so long.
I have this funny feeling that the Naxalites and movements like MAS are going to spearhead global communist revolution. The brigades of explicitly Maoist feminists resisting gangrape and organizing massive strikes, while having folk songs made of their struggle, are the things revolutions are made of.
I don't want to be too hopeful but the accounts I've read do give me some.