OVER THE PAST several years, if not decades, ghosts of fascism have
escaped their 20th-century crypts and come to haunt our present. With
the global COVID-19 pandemic, however, we face the prospect of our
“Reichstag Fire” moment. The fire was an arson attack on the German
legislature exactly four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as
chancellor, allegedly carried out by Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch
council communist. The Nazis immediately claimed that the fire was the
result of a communist plot and it became the pretext for their seizure
of power and total coordination of the state.As was recently pointed out
by/The Economist/
<https://www.economist.com/leaders/2020/04/23/autocrats-see-opportunity-in-disaster>,
close to a dozen states, from Azerbaijan to Togo, have already used the
pandemic to arrogate more power to themselves. Indeed, this development
has been particularly visible in Washington, Budapest, and Delhi.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/posthuman-fascism
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