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Link: On the Rule of Capital, Climate Crisis & the Rise of Fascism in the Pig Empire

Editor’s note: I’m legitimately in the middle of seven things right now, not the least of which is wrapping up the show notes for a new episode of No Fugazi; which is naturally why I was super thrilled to lose internet access for huge portions of yesterday, forcing me to retreat to my heated garage with my offline laptop.

The upshot here is I wrote something while I was out there; a salon or lecture hall style discussion about the connection between the rule of capital, impending climate catastrophe and the rise of fascism across much of the Pig Empire:

Climate Crisis and the Fascist Moment

Stuck in my garage without the internet, I sat down to answer two simple, but important questions about the rise of modern, westernized fascism. First, why are reactionary billionaires and significant portions of the ruling classes turning towards fascism in countries we typically call liberal democracies? Secondly, why are ruling elites who have successfully gamed democracy to control society for centuries at this point, suddenly turning towards fascist methods of control now? The answer, I believe, could not be more obvious if it punched us in the face; we’re running out of planet, and time to save billions of people who don’t happen to be rich.

“This then answers our key question if we’re looking to understand what material factor has changed and why that change might result in a shift away from (rigged) liberal democracies and towards fascist rule; it’s literally the end of the world as we know it unless we ditch capitalism, and the capitalists have no intention of doing that. If your master plan is to frog-march the vast majority of humanity into an agonizing death to protect capitalism and the ruling classes at all costs, how dangerous is it for you to leave even a rigged “liberal democracy” intact? Would not the climate apocalypse represent precisely the kind of existential threat that might unite the ruled classes in solidarity and cause them to overthrow your social order as part of a demand that their governments act to save billions of lives?”
Click on either the header or the image below to check out my new Journal Essay on Can’t You Read:

 

 

 

(reminder, there’s a whole 2700 word essay there, it’s not just the picture – some of y’all allergic to scrolling or something, IDK.)
 
– nina illingworth
 

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