[Nettime-bold] Fascism is mundane, marketable, and fun

[Nmherman@aol.com]

Subj:    Re: G2000Conf2000 Max Gets on Nettime!!!!!!!!!!  Now I'm retiring .
Date:   5/18/2001 9:35:41 AM Central Daylight Time
From:   baseekins@netscape.net
Reply-to:   <A HREF="mailto:Genius2000Conference2000@yahoogroups.com">
Genius2000Conference2000@yahoogroups.com</A>
To: Genius2000Conference2000@yahoogroups.com

> Fascism means not a certain fashion style, like swastikas and architecture 
by 
> Speer using spotlights pointing straight up.  It means the removal of 
rights 
> from regular people and allocation of all power, even over life and death 
but 
> certainly over free speech and economic activity, to the State.  

I think this is the most important point you made in that post. Just as 
corporate imperialism has become increasingly reliant on using the idea of 
"rebellion" as a marketing, real fascism (corporate imperialism) has become 
absolutely dedicated to portraying fascism as some sort of particularly 
gouche fashion style, something that only appeals to inbred rednecks and 
angry suburban teenage neo-nazis who aren't manly enough to letter in a 
sport. Meanwhile the rest of us live in multi-cultural utopia, wearing 
sneakers that are associated with African-American athletes (and hey! sewn by 
East-Asian teenagers--everyone gets to participate!) eating real mexican food 
at Chiles and real italian food at Olive Garden, and drinking gaterade after 
a vigorous game of pickup basketball. 

When intellectuals spend time dreaming up exotic new forms of fascism, with 
all kinds of compelling new "symptoms," they are doing a crucial service for 
corporate imperialism, i.e. obfuscating the reality of contemporary life. 
There's nothing exotic about fascism--it's everyday and mundane.


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