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I can absolutely see this perspective. Fascism is a rather unique phenomenon of the conditions in its time and represents the syncretic convergence of appropriation of left-wing rhetoric, national-scale psychological trauma from a recent catastrophe, colonial methods imported to the metropole, and making reaction a true mass movement in the streets. Can it be replicated in different conditions? Probably not, not exactly at least.
There's a lot that can be contested. Probably most prominently, Trump's populist mass spectacle and groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys actually represent a reborn fascist street politics. But the question is, is a mass street politics even possible in the conditions of modern American neoliberalism, where we are all rendered atomized, fragmented individuals by the nature of our very infrastructure and by constant bombardment of cultural stimuli in every outlet?
I can absolutely see this perspective. Fascism is a rather unique phenomenon of the conditions in its time and represents the syncretic convergence of appropriation of left-wing rhetoric, national-scale psychological trauma from a recent catastrophe, colonial methods imported to the metropole, and making reaction a true mass movement in the streets. Can it be replicated in different conditions? Probably not, not exactly at least.
There's a lot that can be contested. Probably most prominently, Trump's populist mass spectacle and groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys actually represent a reborn fascist street politics. But the question is, is a mass street politics even possible in the conditions of modern American neoliberalism, where we are all rendered atomized, fragmented individuals by the nature of our very infrastructure and by constant bombardment of cultural stimuli in every outlet?