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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
Network state:
Elon Musk's attempt to destroy the United States government isn't random chaos. It's the methodical execution of the "network state" blueprint. … Everything Elon Musk and his tech cronies are doing to our government is what Balaji Srinivasan spelled out in his network state cult manifestos – a tech CEO takeover of government, the purging of institutions, the rise of crypto corruption as a dominant economic force, the quest for new territory. … The strategy: Purge the government of civil servants and replace them with those loyal to a dictator. … Democracy isn't dying in darkness. The lights are on. We can see it all happening in real time. No, democracy is dying in silence. – The Network State Coup is Happening Right Now, by Gil Duran, for The Nerd Reich
The Network State Coup is Happening Right Now
Interview mit Natascha Strobl:
Donald Trump und die Tech-Bros ziehen in den USA nun an einem Strang. Ihre libertär-faschistische Ideologie wirkt bis nach Europa und zieht dabei auch die hiesige politische „Mitte“ in ihren Bann. Die Politikwissenschaftlerin Natascha Strobl hat eine Idee, wir uns diesem gefährlichen Sog entziehen können. -- „Wir dürfen uns nicht kaputtmachen lassen“, Interview von Chris Köver, Daniel Leisegang, für Netzpolitik
„Wir dürfen uns nicht kaputtmachen lassen“
Canada next?
Within the next six months, Canada is likely to witness a turn toward more aggressive right-wing politics. This shift was set in motion by the resignation of Justin Trudeau as the leader of the Liberal Party, though he remains prime minister for the short remainder of his government’s term. It appears nearly inevitable that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives will form a government — likely a strong majority government, capable of governing with near impunity. -- Pierre Poilievre Wants Radical Austerity for Canada,
by Ryan Kelpin, for Jacobin
Pierre Poilievre Wants Radical Austerity for Canada
Schlimme Aussichten. 😧
Täuscht nicht alles, folgen finstere Zeiten. Kippen die USA, werden die autokratischen Parteien enormen Schub bekommen, nur schon weil die Opportunistinnen kippen wie kalifornische Milliardäre. – Die goldene Zeit des Donald Trump, von Constantin Seibt, für die Republik
Die goldene Zeit des Donald Trump
“Flood the zone with shit” (Bannon), nun auch in Deutschland, schreibt @bkastl@mastodon.social:
In Deutschland werden die Strategien des Bindens der Aufmerksamkeit durch populistische Strategien bis zum faschistischen Dammbruch aktuell durch ehemals konservative Parteien der Mitte zum Setzen der eigenen Agenda inzwischen konsequent nachgeahmt. Nicht gut für die Demokratie, wenn es nur noch das Thema Migration zu geben scheint und sich alle medial in einem Überbietungswettbewerb um mehr und mehr Grenzüberschreitungen befinden, auch ehemalige Bürgerrechtsparteien. – Obskur, von Bianca Kastl, für netzpolitik.org
auch ehemalige Bürgerrechtsparteien
Letzter Link bezieht sich auf den Xenophobie-Rutsch der Grünen in Deutschland:
Es gab einmal eine Zeit, da waren die Grünen bekannt dafür, dass sie die kruden Law-and-Order-Fantasien der anderen Parteien kritisch hinterfragten. Es gab einmal eine Zeit, in der die Grünen eine einwanderungsfreundliche und weltoffene Partei waren. Es gab eine Zeit, da die Grünen einmal evidenzbasierte Sicherheitspolitik forderten. Es gab eine Zeit, in der die Grünen Bürgerrechtspartei genannt wurden. … Sie wollen mehr Abschieben, mehr Polizei und mehr Befugnisse für diese, engmaschige Überwachung sogenannter „Top-Gefährder“, mehr Kooperation von Polizeien und Geheimdiensten und so weiter. – Hardliner Habeck im Law-and-Order-Strudel, von Markus Reuter, für netzpolitik.org
Hardliner Habeck im Law-and-Order-Strudel
The USA remodelled after Turkey and Hungary:
America has been backsliding for a decade: between 2014 and 2021, Freedom House’s annual global freedom index, which scores all countries on a scale of zero to 100, downgraded the United States from 92 (tied with France) to 83 (below Argentina and tied with Panama and Romania), where it remains. … What lies ahead is not fascist or single-party dictatorship but competitive authoritarianism—a system in which parties compete in elections but the incumbent’s abuse of power tilts the playing field against the opposition. Most autocracies that have emerged since the end of the Cold War fall into this category, including Alberto Fujimori’s Peru, Hugo Chávez’s Venezuela, and contemporary El Salvador, Hungary, India, Tunisia, and Turkey. Under competitive authoritarianism, the formal architecture of democracy, including multiparty elections, remains intact. Opposition forces are legal and aboveground, and they contest seriously for power. Elections are often fiercely contested battles in which incumbents have to sweat it out. And once in a while, incumbents lose, as they did in Malaysia in 2018 and in Poland in 2023. But the system is not democratic, because incumbents rig the game by deploying the machinery of government to attack opponents and co-opt critics. Competition is real but unfair. -- The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown, by Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way, for Foreign Affairs
The Path to American Authoritarianism: What Comes After Democratic Breakdown
Learn from South Korea: Leadership must be thinking ahead!
In South Korea, the prevention of a self-coup — which could have easily succeeded given the mobilization of martial law forces — was achieved through swift action based on identifying methods to lift martial law within the existing system. Had the coup succeeded that day, reversing the subsequent dictatorial situation would have been far more challenging. – What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab
What the US can learn from South Koreans who stopped an authoritarian power-grab
@Daojoan@mastodon.social writes:
The architects of NATO created an impressive and entirely necessary alliance for their time. They built a structure that helped maintain European peace for over half a century. But they failed to account for how domestic political shifts in a single country could unravel the entire framework. To be blunt, they failed to account for American stupidity. That oversight now haunts Europe. – America Was Always NATO's Biggest Strength and Its Greatest Weakness, by Joan Westenberg, for The Index
America Was Always NATO's Biggest Strength and Its Greatest Weakness
Deutschland: Der Aufstieg der NSDAP: Ein historischer Rückblick bzw. Der Aufstieg der AfD: Ein fiktiver Ausblick.
Der Aufstieg der NSDAP: Ein historischer Rückblick bzw. Der Aufstieg der AfD: Ein fiktiver Ausblick
We need to prepare ourselves to pressure the parties to fight harder. To learn from the Democratic party failing the USA:
We also do not have the time, nor is there any sign of mass inclination, to build a new third party for the working class. What we need to do is, yes, pressure these Democrats at every turn to fight and fight harder. I’ve made so many calls that my finger has become a misshapen claw, and you should be making calls, too. We need to go to town halls during the current recess and raise hell. We must also start to organize independent plans at every demo to move past Democratic passivity. – Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch, by Dave Zirin, for The Nation
Why Democrats Won’t Throw a Real Punch
He who controls the payments controls the people:
A coup is underway, against Americans as possessors of human rights and dignities, and against Americans as citizens of a democratic republic. Each hour this goes unrecognized makes the success of the coup more likely. – Of Course It’s a Coup, by Timothy Snyder
@DetersHenning@eupolicy.social argued that the situation is not as bad as predicted:
On the + side:
Record turnout of 84%The libertarian party that held the coalition hostage and staged a government collapse will probably get zero seatsThere's a chance the left-turned-authoritarian splinter party BSW also stays outComeback of the Left partyOf the coalition partners, the Greens held up the best. A 2%p loss is respectable.Conservative CDU %, despite predictions up to 37%, 2nd worst result everNeonazis <=20%. Way too much, but still less than predicted
@GeofCox@climatejustice.social concisely describes how the center isn't holding and how the moderate right is eaten by the far right, everywhere:
It's pretty much in line with the last French elections too. I see it as quite hopeful. The SPD and Greens were bound to get a bit of a kicking, because the general trend across the world recently has been any and all incumbents losing - but the Conservatives didn't gain much in view of this, and there's nothing to suggest that their vote isn't in long term decline - their French equivalents, Les Republicains, have been pretty much eaten already by the far right or by other centrists, just as MAGA has eaten the US Republicans, and Reform seems to be eating the UK Tories.
But in all these trends what stands out to me is voters moving from the political centre - rejecting the status quo - to both extremes - not just the right - and in Germany as in France and the UK (where the Greens and other further left candidates have actually been the biggest gainers) the left is still out-polling the right (Greens+Left+BSW over 25%, AfD less than 21%).
About the decline and fall of the Ku Klux Klan:
The Klan in the '20s felt inescapable. … The mayor, the councilmen, the cops, the prosecutors, the judges—Klan Klan Klan Klan Klan. … The speed with which the group grew, the influence it held, the mainstream embrace it received, and the fear it spread—I think about how impossible it must have felt to imagine that their influence would ever ebb. … The Klan—like this new batch of fascists currently occupying the White House—were massively corrupt and power hungry and that corruption and internal struggles for power lead to their undoing. Despite having a grip on every lever of power in the mid-'20s, the Klan was largely toothless by the '30s … What felt impossible became possible. -- What Felt Impossible Became Possible