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The Victory of Fascism and the Inherent Misery of Capitalism’s Current Form

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Jan 22, 2025
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Morning Comrades.

At the time of writing, Monday Lunch Euro Time, the Orange Goblin hasn’t been sworn in yet so there will not be any reaction to that just yet. For what it is worth, I might or might not hold off on Friday’s dispatch to dip into that, but somehow doubt it. I’ve said most of what I wanted to say about that bad Hollywood film on Monday. With that, a correlating thought nonetheless.

When the news hit last week that David Lynch had passed I succumbed to a brief period of frustration in which I, rightfully, said that the majority of my heroes were dead and all my enemies were in charge, That still stands but the the train of thought that led to that statement had me thinking about the following premise: As much as I exist in a bubble of what they consider left wing extremists, which it is absolutely not, by most material accounts the bastards have won. Across the entirety of the West a several decade long plan of consistently forcing the Overton Window to a projected “right”, to normalise the incongruous fallacies of nationalism, racism, war, the total submission to capitalism, has succeeded on a political and societal plane. Even the most “leftwing” European parties represented in their respective parliaments, usually an absolute minority at that, harbour and project policies that would make any milquetoast socialist from a 100 year ago take up arms. The bastards own the entirety of Western governments, they own the majority if not totality of Western Media, they own industries and are capable are maneuvering armies across the Globe to enforce their Imperialist extractions of wealth The current Zeitgeist within language and cultural hegemony is so entirely under the sway that there should be victory parades in their names across the West.

Yet, there aren’t any.

Even more interestingly, the dominant economic, political and social force across the West is as angry and violently opposed to ever increasing imaginary threats to their power. We have dealt with the incessant need for Capitalist structures to facilitate a boogeyman in the past and continuing from that onwards here is an additional part of this reality, one that is stated to illustrate the fallacy and weakness of who we are facing.

The victory of a reactionary, far-right movement across the global West presents a critical juncture to analyse the dynamics of power, ideology, and discontent under late capitalism. While the hegemony of right-wing politics in government, industry, and culture promises a revival of “order,” it instead fosters widespread alienation, anger, and paranoia among its own adherents. The following dispatch employs Marxist materialist analysis and cultural critiques of fascism to argue that these contradictions are not incidental but fundamental to capitalism’s reliance on exploitation and hierarchy. Through the works of key thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno, and Walter Benjamin, we will explore how fascism, far from a stabilising force, reflects capitalism's descent into its own nihilistic endgame.

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