<nettime> inverted fascism

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Interesting insight from 
https://newleftreview.org/II/114/dylan-riley-what-is-trump - 
internationalized elites vs. nationalist proles is the exact opposite 
from the environment that brought us fascism.


" This underlines the dramatic inversion of class–nation relations that 
is another contrast with the 1930s. In the US today, a pro-globalist 
professional layer is pitted against a ‘nationalist’ white working 
class—a configuration that is almost the opposite to that of interwar 
fascism. Classic ‘populist’ movements of the Peronist type, which are 
not much in evidence today, linked nationalist working classes and 
nationalist white-collar workers, or ‘new petty bourgeoisies’. Fascism, 
in contrast, emerged in contexts in which the political leadership of 
the working class, the communist parties, remained internationalist, 
whereas the petty bourgeoisie swung to extreme nationalism. Far from 
being a form of populism, fascism was premised on its failure. 
Socialism, at least in the advanced world, has emerged where both the 
new professional strata and the leadership of the working class are 
oriented internationally: an unfortunate rarity. The contemporary new 
rights differ from these in attempting to mobilize a nationally oriented 
working class against a globally oriented ‘new petty bourgeoisie’. "


[ The unmentionable obvious solution is internationalizing the proles as 
well, but first subdivisions of identity politics' freak empowerments 
need to be handled: it's just too much work to unite lesbians of all 
countries, then homos of all countries, then trans of all countries, 
then ... ]

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