Revolutionary Left Radio: Blood in my Eye: On Fascism and Class Warfare
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In this second installment of our ongoing mini-series on George Jackson's "Blood in my Eye", Breht walks us through Jackson's chapter "On Fascism" and elucidates his views on what it is, where it comes from, and its relationship to monopoly capitalism and the U.S. state. Outro Music: 'I Don't Give a Fucc' by Nipsey Hussle ----- Please Support Rev Left Radio: or make a one time donation: PayPal.me/revleft LEARN MORE ABOUT REV LEFT RADIO:

I think this episode really lays bare the absoute absurdity in the concept of voting out fascism. Fascism is always there and shifting within the dialectic of class struggle. It becomes more acute, not because of flimsy ideology or voting, but because of material conditions that lead to class struggle. Neither party "wants" fascism in bourgeois democracy because they both benefit from the stability of a labour aristocracy's investment in the democratic facade.

As imperialism wanes in effectiveness, fascistic elements in society will arise organically out of the class struggle contradiction as a response to demands from an increasingly exploited working class, and it is our job as socialists to make sure that the working class wins by any means necessary.

  • ocho [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I always liked the definition of fascism as "imperialism brought home" because it perfectly surmises the relationship between us and our rulers. The illusion of some sort of social cohesion falls to the side as the genuine will of the ruling class shows itself. We get a first person view of all the death and violence we've been doing to Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. Hell, what we do to BIPoC and immigrants but turned further inward.

    And for what? So some dying oligarchs can sit on their thrones for a while longer? So aging politicians and war generals can preside over their failed state like some regal diplomat or vanquishers of evil? Or worst, for fucking Applebees? Man-wipes? Some other vacant consumer good that shows how destitute and miserable modern life is? The suburbs???

    Man, this system is an affront to everything moral and human. The sooner we put an end to it, the fucking better.