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Switzerland:
Ebenso die rechten Zeitungen rund um die Welt – vom «Spectator» bis zur «Weltwoche». Gefüllt mit Artikeln zu Gender-Terror, Cancel-Culture und Woke-Ideologie, klingen sie seit Jahren alle wie «Breitbart», das Magazin von Trumps ehemaligem Chefideologen Steve Bannon. – Die Zukunft des Faschismus, Teil 2
Swiss perspectives in 10 languages – swissinfo.ch
Die Zukunft des Faschismus, Teil 2
Monde Diplomatique:
In unserem Textarchiv finden Sie alle Artikel aus der deutschen Ausgabe seit 1995. Ausgenommen sind die Artikel der letzten drei Ausgaben. – Monde Diplomatique (German)
CrimethInc. is a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid. – CrimethInc.
Sadly defunct, apparently? – https://offiziere.ch Related activity on Reddit? https://www.reddit.com/domain/offiziere.ch/
https://www.reddit.com/domain/offiziere.ch/
Who will be a Nazi:
Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. … But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis. … Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t—whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi. – Who Goes Nazi? (1941), by Dorothy Thompson, in Harper's Magazine
Die Prioritäten in der Bevölkerung sind richtig:
Deswegen ist es auch wenig überraschend, dass in einer neuen Studie der CDU-nahen Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung die Spannungen zwischen Europa und Russland (69 %), Fremdenfeindlichkeit (63 %), Rechtsruck und Aufstieg der AfD (62 %) sowie der Klimawandel (59 %) die Probleme sind, die jeweils von den meisten Menschen als Bedrohung wahrgenommen werden. – Studie: Angst vor der AFD fast doppelt so gross wie vor Migration
Studie der CDU-nahen Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Studie: Angst vor der AFD fast doppelt so gross wie vor Migration
Disaster nationalism:
The climate emergency has made wildfires, storms, droughts and floods more frequent and more severe — an effect that only deepens as time marches on. The relentless drive to turn every living process into a source of profit has increasingly put life itself under strain. Yet despite these clear and immediate threats, the new far right crystallises in opposition to wholly imaginary horrors: the “great replacement” of whites by migrants, “cabals” of Satanist paedophiles and communists in power, a “Plandemic” to subjugate humanity, Jewish “space lasers" manipulating the weather, and a climate “hoax” to end fossil fuel-based freedom. Intriguingly, today’s reactionary political forces respond to real terrors by hallucinating even more extreme, lurid evils, against which it is possible to take arms. I call this phenomenon, which has just propelled Donald Trump to his second term as US president with an outright majority of the popular vote, “disaster nationalism”. It is an inchoate fascism — itself a contested term — which, for the purposes of what follows, can be understood as a revolutionary movement of the right to crush democracy. -- On Disaster Nationalism & The Climate Crisis, by Richard Seymour, author of *Disaster Nationalism: The Downfall of Liberal Civilization* (Verso, 2024).
On Disaster Nationalism & The Climate Crisis
@Daojoan@mastodon.social writes:
The play is as old as the printing press: while communities are embroiled in battles over ideological and cultural differences, their collective capacity to address more fundamental issues of economic inequality, environmental degradation, and the consolidation of power is significantly weakened. The relentless focus on divisive issues serves as a smokescreen under which policies and practices that further entrench elite power can continue with reduced scrutiny.
These culture and identity wars are waged on multiple fronts. Traditional and social media play a crucial role in perpetuating these divisions. Sensationalist reporting and echo chambers on social media platforms amplify extreme views, drown out moderate voices, and create an illusion that society is more polarised than it truly is. The constant barrage of divisive content fuels a perpetual state of societal unrest and distracts from the insidious actions of those at the top.
– Welcome to the Decade of Discontent, by Joan Westenberg
Welcome to the Decade of Discontent
@emilygorcenski@indieweb.social writes:
In this sense, it’s perhaps more sensible to think of the deportment of the American Right in recent years less as a culture war and more as an epistemological one. Right wing mouthpieces aren’t simply trying to ensure that American values remain favorable to the cisgender, heterosexual white man, they are also trying to command the authority to *define*. They are here to define what a woman is, how many genders there are, whether the January 6 rioters were terrorists or patriots, and the meaning of due process. This is why the American right cannot be engaged as an intellectual exercise. They are not opponents in a game of chess playing by accepted rules. They are seeking to define the colors of the squares and the rules by which the pieces move. While you’re playing the board, they’re playing the rulebook. -- On Truth, by Emily Gorcenski
It's the far right!
This article examines which parties are more likely to spread misinformation, by drawing on a comprehensive database of 32M tweets from parliamentarians in 26 countries, spanning 6 years and several election periods. … Using multilevel analysis with random country intercepts, we find that radical-right populism is the strongest determinant for the propensity to spread misinformation. Populism, left-wing populism, and right-wing politics are not linked to the spread of misinformation. These results suggest that political misinformation should be understood as part and parcel of the current wave of radical right populism, and its opposition to liberal democratic institution. -- When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries, by Petter Törnberg and Juliana Chueri, for The International Journal of Press/Politics OnlineFirst
When Do Parties Lie? Misinformation and Radical-Right Populism Across 26 Countries