Comradeship // Freechat

It's already here in America and it takes three forms, largely based on aesthetics, geography, and class status. It's simply not coherent and it doesn't need to be. The state doesn't feel threatened. Nothing exists in America right now for a fascist response to be necessary. Standard imperialist dictatorship of the bourgeoisie is working out just fine for them, but there are three political aesthetics right now that could very well morph into more direct fascist movements when the time comes:

There's the neoliberals, who take an aesthetic of respectability. They by and large are the chosen ideological faction of the bourgeoisie right now, because they've been good at extracting the most wealth from impoverished countries. The game is starting to wobble though with the fall of profit margins and how much of their domestic wealth comes from real estate scams sitting on top of more elaborate real estate scams.

There are the outright fascists, the boorish racists who aren't afraid to hide their racism behind platitudes. They're a mixed bag of internet influencers, evangelicals, white nationalists, confused conspiracy theorists, and jet ski dealership owners. Domestic petite bourgeoisie who vaguely understand the game is stacked against them in the form of finance, real estate, and investment. But they're so up their own ass they figure this is the work of a nefarious cabal of Jews or blue haired communists come to put gay drugs in the water. They don't recognize the material circumstances since their primary goal is protecting white imperialist privilege. This contingent has no idea who they are and lack coherent goals beyond inflicting misery. They don't recognize themselves in the mirror as fascists. They see themselves as playing a game on screens or fans of a sport. Only their most deranged actually try anything, often with prodding from federal agents.

The other group are right wing libertarians. They're the logical conclusion of American whiteness. Their ideology at its core is American settler pride and a vestigial desire to be a homesteader out in the prairie with land stolen from natives. It's a desire to be a little feudal prince with no social responsibility, and the only praxis this becomes is a warped, wobbly attempt at fascism with a coat of annoying contrarian pseudo-intellectualism. It's on the decline because it never manifested its goals and the capitalists have mostly come to an agreement with neoliberalism, which delivers the same thing but more efficiently.

A coherent fascist movement is only going to arise once a successful socialist movement exists as its contrary. That's how it always works. Fascism is socialism's shadow, it's capitalism's immune system.