But the upshot is, the US is the agglomeration of the Dutch, English, Spanish, and French empires - all empires that enslaved and traded people as property, that pioneered new forms of social control, that committed genocide and mass atrocities. The US is not a break from those things, it is a continuation of those things. Those things all informed modern Euro-fascism that peaked in the 1930s under Germany and Italy. Hitler explicitly wrote in Mein Kampf that he was modeling his program on American innovations in social control and economic extraction. German propagandists directly lifted American techniques. The first ever gas chamber for mass murder was invented by the French during the Haitian rebellion.
And when the Axis lost in WW2, the US worked with the Vatican to save, relocate, and integrate Nazis into its empire around the world. When the US created NATO it staffed it with Nazi officers who were hellbent on fighting the USSR, which created a culture inside NATO that was driven by Nazis. And one of the major operations of NATO, Operation Gladio, was focused on finding, organizing, arming, and training Nazi sympathizers and neo-Nazis all over Europe.
America isn’t at risk of becoming fascist. It has always been a particular form of fascism, not easily recongizable as fascism for those of us who are not the target of its police and military, but easily recognizable by the subaltern both domestically and globally. Stop waiting for it to look exactly like 1939 Germany before you call it fascism.
I think you might be missing the historical context here.
Here’s an example:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/sep/30/fascism-in-america-book-trump
This one is a lot more thorough and damning:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/10/16/the-u-s-did-not-defeat-fascism-in-wwii-it-discretely-internationalized-it/
But the upshot is, the US is the agglomeration of the Dutch, English, Spanish, and French empires - all empires that enslaved and traded people as property, that pioneered new forms of social control, that committed genocide and mass atrocities. The US is not a break from those things, it is a continuation of those things. Those things all informed modern Euro-fascism that peaked in the 1930s under Germany and Italy. Hitler explicitly wrote in Mein Kampf that he was modeling his program on American innovations in social control and economic extraction. German propagandists directly lifted American techniques. The first ever gas chamber for mass murder was invented by the French during the Haitian rebellion.
And when the Axis lost in WW2, the US worked with the Vatican to save, relocate, and integrate Nazis into its empire around the world. When the US created NATO it staffed it with Nazi officers who were hellbent on fighting the USSR, which created a culture inside NATO that was driven by Nazis. And one of the major operations of NATO, Operation Gladio, was focused on finding, organizing, arming, and training Nazi sympathizers and neo-Nazis all over Europe.
America isn’t at risk of becoming fascist. It has always been a particular form of fascism, not easily recongizable as fascism for those of us who are not the target of its police and military, but easily recognizable by the subaltern both domestically and globally. Stop waiting for it to look exactly like 1939 Germany before you call it fascism.
huh