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It wasn't just hate. Fascism offered robust social welfare - Sheri Berman | Aeon Ideas
An analogy is haunting the United States - the analogy of fascism. It is virtually impossible (outside certain parts of the Right-wing itself) to try to understand the resurgent Right without hearing it described as - or compared with - 20th-centu...
Give this rush to authoritarianism any name or label you feel is appropriate ... alt-right is as good as another.
(but) This loud, antagonistic disruptive and dangerous phenomena is more than the simple reaction to "globalism" (neo-liberalism), its often protrayed as. In some large part its also reactive counter disruption aka: revenge and anger .
Underlying these Totalitarianisms, as surely as capital accretes capital, as exploitation means profit, is the biocidal nature of unmitigated capitalism made apparent. Capitalism should be a better tool, a simple economic fuel or enabler.
Maybe after this current and emerging set of conflagations, we will get a little closer to beneficence , across more juridictions and perhaps in spite of them.
apologies I'm a waffling and wheezing ancient Internationalist (gasp) :)
... Sheri Berman says all that much betterer and surveys much more. ....
There can be no question that violence and racism were essential traits of fascism. But for most ..., the appeal was based not on racism, much less ethnic cleansing, but on the fascists’ ability to respond effectively to crises of capitalism when other political actors were not... The fascist solution ultimately was, of course, worse than the problem. In response to the horror of fascism, in part, New Deal Democrats in the United States, and social democratic parties in Europe, also moved to re-negotiate the social contract.
The lesson for the present is clear: you can’t beat something with nothing. If other political actors don’t come up with more compelling solutions to the problems of capitalism, the popular appeal of the resurgent Right-wing will continue...




We tend to forget that ISIS also has a sort of social welfare for all paradise under the Kalifate type of propaganda that lured many European boys and girls to go there.
It's about time universal basic income is adopted by Western societies to counter the negative effects of neocapitalism and automatisation.
It would even make sense to introduce it globally.