Fascism relies on a conception of the worker & of class that hollows out materiality & material struggle and fills it with mysticism. A framework of society welded together with profoundly paramaterial abstractions: the nation, the volk, the race; each attached and articulated through fundamentally esoteric rhetoric.
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Liberal diagnoses of the roots of fascism inevitably collapse in on themselves and ring hollow because their own system relies just as much on a finely woven web of immateriality. Belief in the inexorable forward momentum of capital and its potential for moral healing
@abraxas weirdly, I've actually seen it play out. You ever read Michael Mann's "Fascists"? I read it at uni, and then watched the 2010s prove almost every conclusion it came to about fascism wrong.