DC last night:
- https://twitter.com/loran076/status/1323907767887867904?s=19
- https://twitter.com/FranceNews24/status/1323917050369245185?s=19
- https://hexbear.net/post/47055
it's more likely in the next few days that the fash will take the streets, especially as trump announces how he will contest the election. after all, chaos is his best bet for getting the powers that be to allow him to retain power without a fight. so don't fucking tell people to stay home. it's absolutely critical that everyone pays attention to what's happening in their own backyards and steps up to engage in appropriate community defense.
the election is just a stage. stop confusing it with the conditions that compel people to act.
maybe we should do a Clara Zetkin "Fighting Fascism" reading group or something. people seem to not even be aware of the actual threat in the next few weeks, how to analyze it, and how to fight it.
may i ask what you see the upcoming threats to be in the next few weeks? maybe it's too complex to get into, but i'm curious on what you have to say!
so trump is going to just barely lose the election and take it to the courts (that he's rigged) to fight the case for his coup. this part is interesting in that it's a another several steps towards war, especially in that it forces the urban/haute bourgeoisie to make a choice - step in and stop the coup using the institutions that will respond to them or allow trump's coup to happen, knowing that the person they'd very much prefer, biden, clearly won the election. there's a huge pressure against action - it's very clear to most observers that if they choose to try and stop the coup, they stand a very high risk of precipitating a war. (they might be forced to this war by further action by the national bourgeoisie, but that's a separate matter.)
so wanting stability and the chance to continue profiting on the covid crisis, they prefer biden. but that preference is easily abandoned if the risk of war looks too severe. enter our fascist paramilitary friends, funded and trained by the national bourgeoisie. the more noise they make, threatening a hard reprisal to any response to the coup, the less likely such a response becomes.
so make no mistake, they will be out all over major cities in the coming weeks as the soap opera plays out on TV.
our problem is that shows of force by fascists must, under all conditions be sufficiently opposed. their source of ideological influence is primarily aesthetic - if they look powerful, they garner support from their cowardly, but sympathetic would-be followers (i.e. fascists, but those who are cowed into staying home). the more support they garner, the more they escalate the amount of force they're willing to bring to bear.
so, expect increased fascist activity in the next several weeks. and expect it to get worse if the response is sloppy or inadequate. we're not very far off from pograms in this country.