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https://twitter.com/FinchelsteinF/status/1642242091530027013... which is the most fruitful path to thinking about neofascism today. Without that, you end up with Arendt style all encompassing "totalitarian" analysis. Like this:
https://twitter.com/FinchelsteinF/status/1643228109213147136?s=20
https://twitter.com/JuddApatow/status/1540625435112996864Yes, they do electoral work but also cultural work, intensifying right-tendencies in existing institutions or nurturing novel ones, from the Federalist Society to the Moral Majority to the Proud Boys, pushing its languages in media & also engaging in violent campaigns of terror.
https://twitter.com/Leigh_Phillips/status/1442702281485406210Even the most explicitly non-violent examples (like Satyagraha in the context of Indian independence) were part of a broad network of actors, some quite violent. Basically all world revolutions, radical transformatios, particularly anti-colonial are out.
https://twitter.com/mattpetersonnyc/status/1393354836461162497We should regard COVID as an example of already existing climate change which itself is caused by the functioning of actually existing capitalism. Dispossession of peoples, incorporating nature, accelerating extraction are merely intensifications of long standing trends. /2