Fascists Really Believe It w/ Toby Buckle (E224)

In the piece itself, you mentioned seven helpful framings, you know, you call them neo-fascist narratives.

And let me read them out, I actually have them in front of me.

The first, and they're not necessarily in kind of any order, but still, only white people can produce and sustain the highest culture, i.e., quote-unquote, Western civilization, that's one.

The different racial cultural nations are necessarily in zero-sum violent conflict.

That's two.

Violent masculinity is needed to save white nations and hence civilization.

That's three.

Women are not capable of this.

Their role is to breed the race, not lead it.

That's five.

Because our leadership has become feminized and corrupted, white nations have been contaminated by contact with inferior races.

That's six.

A political purge is required, followed by a society-wide purge of the contaminating element.

And then all of this will restore the white racial cultural nations to their previous, in between parentheses, mythic glory.

These are things that...

I mean, even in kind of like my own studies, in a sense, fascisms across the world, they have different things.

They're not all the same.

They have different priorities.

They're not even always necessarily racial, like the Brazilian case of a century ago was understood in the same way.

Bolsonaro very much is, but the older one isn't.

So there has been some like fascism, for example, in Europe were were obsessed with anti-Semitism, others not so much.

But what mattered was that they were willing to work together in order to have this kind of fascist international fascist kind of, you know.

fascist alternative to the united nations or whatever you might be fascist alternative to whether it's the socialist order in the soviet bloc or the communist order or whether it's the liberal uh block obviously whatever it might be an alternative to that which they have identified as the threat essentially And the differences between them, like the differences between, I don't know, Mussolini and Hitler, two of the two most famous ones, mattered, but not as much as what they had in common.

And today's kind of fascist, neo-reactionaries, ultra-far-right, all of these other terms, and there is a spectrum there, of course.

They don't necessarily like one another.