"#NaomiKlein opened the teach-in by challenging the conventional, narrow understanding of fascism, particularly the idea that it is a uniquely European phenomenon that began in the 1920s or ’30s and was defeated in 1945. Instead, she argued, fascism is a recurring logic rooted in #imperialism, #settlerColonialism, and #racialSupremacy..."
The Long Arc of #Fascism Teach-in | Panel 2: Fascism as Capitalist Counter Revolution
"[T]he second panel turned to the present, mapping how fascism re-emerges as a reactionary force defending #racialCapitalism and elite rule against emancipatory movements."
w/ Brenna Bhandar, Avery Everhart, Gastón Gordillo, Alberto Toscano
#DougWilson has built a #theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the #GOP.
By Ian Ward, 05/23/2025
Excerpt: "Wilson has spent much of his career outside the conservative mainstream, which has distanced itself from his frank defense of theocracy, his ultra-#patriarchal views on gender relations and his reactionary stances on race and 'the war between the states,' as he still calls the #CivilWar. (On the 'About' page of his blog, Wilson describes his politics as 'slightly to the right' of the #Confederate general Jeb Stuart.) Online, Wilson has cultivated a punk-rock aesthetic designed to foster his reputation as the 'based' intellectual bad boy of American #evangelicalism: In a promotional video posted at the height of the conservative backlash to '#woke' media companies in 2023, Wilson used a skull-and-crossbones-emblazoned flamethrower to torch oversized cardboard cutouts of various Disney princesses and social media companies, all while puffing on a fat cigar."
"[T]his #newRight does not really reject globalism but advances a new strain of it [...] The fix it finds in race, culture, and nation is but the most recent iteration of a pro-market philosophy based not on the idea that we are all the same but that we are in a fundamental, and perhaps permanent way, different." - #QuinnSlobodian
text (at right):
Free Markets and Fixed Natures
How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.
Quinn Slobodian
History, Neoliberalism
images (at left): Charles Murray, Friedrich Hayek, and Elon Musk. Images: Alamy, National Portrait Gallery, London, Gage Skidmore (Flickr)
At this point I suspect that it will surprise precisely no one to learn that GOP VP candidate JD Vance has once again been found with his hand in the fascist cookie jar; this time it turns out that his press secretary, Parker Magid, recently worked for a far right political consultancy firm that brags about its ability to conduct "clandestine action" and has ties to reactionary extremist groups, and far right think tanks - so, fascists.
Revealed: top Vance aide worked for far-right consultancy with extremist links
"Beth Daviess, a researcher at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, who has published research on SACR, said the politics represented by the group are “much more extreme than mainstream conservatism”. She explained there were two elements of that extremism: “their opinions on gender and the role women should have in society” and “their views on whether government should be democratic at all”.
The link is just one of a series of connections between Vance and the so-called “new right”, an anti-democratic movement that attacks feminism, racial equality and immigrants while centering the grievances of white men. Those connections were dramatized in an April 2023 photo resurfaced last month in which Vance posed with the staff of New Founding, a Beck & Stone-aligned venture capital firm “for the right” that opposes what it calls “woke capital."
The firm in question is called Beck & Stone, which sounds benign enough until you take a look at their clients list, which includes far right magazines who label themselves "counter revolutionary" (so against the left and liberalism), noted Peter Thiel fash-puppet Blake Masters, and the Society for American Civic Renewal - a men-only "secret society" founded by Scott Yenor, the guy we talked about a couple weeks ago who wants to teach your kids to shoot guns and build walls instead of social studies. This incestuous nest of fascist vipers also includes the revanchist far right think tank The Claremont Institute, and a venture capital firm that finances far right wing (read: fascist) enterprises. That firm's in house journal is called American Reformer, and inside you'll find articles attempting to tie left wing activists to Hamas, declaring masking during a pandemic to be anti-Christian, and making the argument for ominous sounding reprisals for Trump's felony fraud convictions by noting: "in a state of nature, differences are resolved by power.”
Astoundingly these aren't the only interwoven relationships with far right organizations and "respectable" fascists the firm Magid worked for maintains; if you dig far enough into the article you'll find a connection to another revanchist rag called IM-1776 which is tied to noted fascist propagandist Chris Rufo, and "has published pieces praising El Salvador’s authoritarian president, Nayib Bukele; Renaud Camus, who coined the “great replacement” conspiracy theory; the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski; and the Italian proto-fascist Gabriele D’Annunzio." So in other words, these guys are fucking nazis and its only the Pig Empire's unwritten rule about not saying that out loud that's obscuring that fact - a rule I do not subscribe to, and I would advise you not to either if you don't want to eventually get frog-marched to a labor camp by fascists.
So, what do you call politicians, press secretaries, and consultancy firms that hand out with, work for, and promote fascists? Yes, as Chris Rock once noted, you call them fascists too. Furthermore, given that this spider web of revanchist freaks is only one small portion of JD Vance's extensive connections to reactionary extremists, fascist "intellectuals" like Curtis Yarvin, so-called "New Right" think tanks, and a shitlord nazi billionaire supervillain name Peter Thiel, I think it's pretty clear that Vance is more than just window dressing for a Trump campaign also running to install overt fascism in America; after all, Trump is a 78 year old man who wolfs down Big Macs like they're going out of style, which means if elected JD Vance would be alarmingly close to the big chair and being able to make all his nazi friends' dreams come true with the full powers of the presidency.
Look, you might be tired of me telling you that JD Vance is a fucking nazi, and I'm honestly a little tired of writing it. But so long as the Pig Empire establishment and much of its media insist on refusing to say the quiet part out loud, it's important that everyone watching this nazi clown car speak the truth, and loudly. Whether you want to call it counter-revolutionary, far right, New Right, or "our guy" like 4Chan nazi shitposters, the fact is that JD Vance is a fascist, working for fascists, who are trying to transform America from a police state into a permanent overt fascist dictatorship. Those are just the facts, and more people should be speaking them out loud.