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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