The desire of the US right is not fascism, but a capitalism of true, meritorious and productive property holders. This is how they readily align a critique of the administrative state of equal citizenship with a critique of regulation tout court. “Don’t say gay” + no clean water. In the end, I’ll totally fine if you want to call this fascism too. 😂

This header does not to justice to the subtleties of Martin Konings perspective here; very good interview with @rafkhach

https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1511414617662058498

My sense, for example, is Jacobin is broadly aligned with the progressive disembedding narrative (capitalism v democracy), naive economism (compensatory redistribution) and nostalgia for an (institutionally conservative) wfs that Konings treats skeptically here and in his work.

1/I’ve been in NYC the whole pandemic. Remote schooling was poor. My kid was back in public school in Mar ‘21. There was limited mandatory closures for some businesses, prob necessary in the early months, when death was staggering and we didn’t know, but nothing like say Italy. 2/From Feb ‘21 vax rates rose, are high, indoor mask practices are decent, outdoor dining great. Omicron is terrible, made many sick; but daily life was mostly unchanged, except in over taxed hospitals, prisons where vax rates are low. Even schools managed. Rates now cratering.

Stuart Hall's lecture "What is the "Black" in Black Popular Culture" (1991) opened/clarified a key line of thought in the critical study of race that couldn't be further from the DiAngelo/monolithic whiteness stuff. We need better intellectual history of how we got the second. There are of all kinds of charlatans peddling potted accounts rooted in shallow history and thin sociology who have not spent any time reading a massive body of work on race and racism produced over the past years.