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Journalist, The New European. Author of Postcapitalism, How To Stop Fascism and upcoming Reds - a Global History of Communism. @paulmason.bsky.social

Dec 3, 2022, 6 tweets

A theory of fascism. Source: How To Stop Fascism (2021) 1/ It's the product of social and ideological disintegration, triggered by a fear of freedom ....

2/ Though fear of freedom is everywhere, it's particularly strong in groups with a material interest in Un freedom ... #HowtoStopFascism

3/ It's not just a capitalist defence mechanism - its function is to reverse historical progress. Today's fascism - primarily ethnonationalist - is far more explicitly anti-modern than before ...

4/ Co-creation was there in the 20th century movements but is far more salient now, because of networks: the movement becomes a reward structure ...

5/ There's no explicit fascist economic model; rather it must radicalise any existing form of capitalism toward war for Schmittian reasons ....

6/ Agent theory is facile: it's a product of decay and is the self defence organism of class society. When it fails it's logic is self-annihilation. More here ...amazon.co.uk/How-Stop-Fasci…

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