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Episode 245 - Inebriated Past: The Monster Fash (9/13/18)
🕑 Added 2018-09-13 19:37:08 +0000 UTC Matt ties one on and takes a look at "Fascism": its rise in the 20th century, its definition today, and what we mean when we talk about its return.COME SEE US ON THE ROAD BY CORMAC MCCARTHY!!
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Comments
Julian Castellon
So cogent! Great to hear this even years later
Eric Brower
That was an incredible description of the trauma of WWI
Desmond Lyons
So I think the crucial difference between actual fascism, and the post WWII welfare states is more philosophical than practical. Both provide some kind of welfare state to their select ethnic/racial group, maintain violent apartheid states, and violent external colonialism. The difference is that while the Keynesian or fordist state believes in liberalism, in meritocracy, in the general arc of history bending towards justice, even if that’s total bullshit and a contradiction in reality, it still believes and promotes it, the fascist state attempts to go back to the time before the French and American and English revolutions, to this society of orders, when everyone knew their place. Everyone is guaranteed a job because they have a place which cannot be deviated from, the owners kids will be owners, the workers kids will be workers and so on. So the fascist state feels is has no contradictions within it, it doesn’t pretend to care about meritocracy, or representative government, or anything recognizable from the liberal tradition.
