Really glad that our most prominent public intellectuals are still doing the "It's not fascism unless it comes from the Champagne region of 🇫🇷" thing, while Trump is setting up concentration camps, extorting universities, & doing this textbook dictator stuff 🤷♂️
People have no idea how valuable it is to have accurate statistics on the state of the economy and society. And yet, here we are as Trump turns to another page in the autocrat's playbook.
This reminds me of the kind of turgid and impenetrable academic Marxist prose I sometimes was forced to wade through while getting my Masters in Poli Sci in the eighties. It's like whoever uses the most big words in a sentence wins.
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Not having a straightforward relationship with the law does sound a lot like fascism
'in a way, isn't all government fascism?'
I'm just a small-town political scientist, but
Disappointing from Tooze.
Perhaps he’ll be more comfortable if we simply call it authoritarianism.
But it feels too much like a dose of “all capitalist governance is fundamentally unjust & immoral so it doesn’t matter if the color of the dog chewing your throat is brown, yellow, gray, or spotted.”
TBF Tooze's explicit definition of fascism is - a response to WWI, plus some post WWII S. American regimes because reasons. Also TBF, for him to be so concerned with nuance in the linked piece he wrote an etymology of "governance", but then the attached just screams broken-brain.
That extract is doublespeak
Someone needs to talk to a comparativist about whether you can apply lessons of a case out of its narrow temporal and spatial context
This reminds me of the family members of a murder victim who say, "We never thought it could happen here."
It seems like fascism makes sense when read in a history book or seen in a black and white documentary, but not when it's all around us in our current reality.
Its just cope at this point lmao
