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Tendencies of Trumpocalypse
by antifascistfront
By Jeff Shantz
The rise of Trump and more importantly the far Right movements around him raise some questions about the nature of the Trumpocalypse (and its relation to Right populism or more to the point to fascism). The question is now being asked whether or not it is true that there is fascism of some sort in the US at the present time. While not providing a firm answer on that question there are some initial tendencies or shaping features that are suggestive and should be addressed. These are outlines of Trumpocalypse rather than hard and fast conclusions.
Fascism refers to a unique and most extreme form of bourgeois rule. This is so because under fascism the bourgeoisie gives up some of its control to shock troops and loses its customary hold over the mechanisms of liberal democracy. Big capital desires fascism to do its dirty work for it and fascism becomes a tool of big capital. Finance capital through fascism gathers all the organs and institutions of the state. Schools, press, municipalities. Not only the executive. Workers groups are crushed. At its heart fascism is an armed movement that uses extreme violence against the Left.
Some suggest that populism is a more useful term than fascism right now. Yet there are problems with the use of populism to describe the far Right movements today. Centrist notions of populism equate Left and Right. Both are lumped together as non-liberal, against trade, etc., and therefore both are bad. In this way the centrist notions of populism are similar to earlier versions of totalitarianism analysis, as in the work of Hannah Arendt, for example. FDR was referred to as a fascist by some communists. While at the same time Hitler was called a passing phenomenon—to be followed in turn by a victorious proletarian revolution.
At the same time there is a Trumpism—against urbanism, rationalism, metropolitanism. It is a proto-fascist movement. It is about a dynamic. The proposed “purification” of society. A new anthropology—creating the human anew (as in fascism).
Of some importance, there is a tendency to underestimate the movements of contemporary brownshirts in the US. Some commentators might still assume that real fascists in the US live in bunkers in the desert and are merely odd survivalists. But that is a dangerous misreading of current movements. It is an analysis from the 1990s. Fascists today, and this is one thing that can be said about the Trump campaign, have come above ground.
Trump and Brownshirt Infrastructure
Trump represents the construction wing of Wall Street. He will oversee a regime of infrastructure building particularly of Brownshirt infrastructure. That is infrastructure of repression such as prisons, policing infrastructure. His will be a regime of building as his campaign expressed—build a wall; build prisons; build detention centers. He will provide help to banks and he will provide help to construction industries.
Trump will build his base and reward it through Brownshirt infrastructure and physical infrastructure (roads, bridges, airports). This will help the Midwest and the Rust Belt and shore up his base in those areas. That means it will reinforce the white nationalist base and white nationalist rhetoric.
Tax holidays for corporations to repatriate wealth. If taxed at one percent it could be used to fund Brownshirt infrastructure. Funding would be through banks and government would secure the loans. This will be a state assisted accumulation of capital.
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Trump represents warmed over Reaganomics. His plan is the dream of investment bankers. The DNC will carry out his agenda as it benefits Wall Street. There will be a battle in the DNC over the nature of support for Wall Street. They will do so around infrastructures spending and a child care tax.
The Democrats will align with Trump. Sanders, Warren, Chuck Schumer, and the AFL-CIO have all said they could work with Trump. They will hope to gain some credit for some policy decisions. Yet this will only reify Tr
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There are those that would never accept the truth, and never admit that there always existed a "deep" undercurrent, throughout the country, of racism and fascism.
What surprised me to a certain extent was the level of hatred and the level of response. In other words, I knew there was some deeply held "feeling" about people of color, but I wasn't expecting the outburst in response to Trump's "call to arms."
Perhaps Joss wasn't too far off in writing about the Civil War that is to come in the 'verse.
SGG
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Tendencies of Trumpocalypse
by antifascistfront
By Jeff Shantz
The rise of Trump and more importantly the far Right movements around him raise some questions about the nature of the Trumpocalypse (and its relation to Right populism or more to the point to fascism). The question is now being asked whether or not it is true that there is fascism of some sort in the US at the present time. While not providing a firm answer on that question there are some initial tendencies or shaping features that are suggestive and should be addressed. These are outlines of Trumpocalypse rather than hard and fast conclusions.
Fascism refers to a unique and most extreme form of bourgeois rule. This is so because under fascism the bourgeoisie gives up some of its control to shock troops and loses its customary hold over the mechanisms of liberal democracy. Big capital desires fascism to do its dirty work for it and fascism becomes a tool of big capital. Finance capital through fascism gathers all the organs and institutions of the state. Schools, press, municipalities. Not only the executive. Workers groups are crushed. At its heart fascism is an armed movement that uses extreme violence against the Left.
Some suggest that populism is a more useful term than fascism right now. Yet there are problems with the use of populism to describe the far Right movements today. Centrist notions of populism equate Left and Right. Both are lumped together as non-liberal, against trade, etc., and therefore both are bad. In this way the centrist notions of populism are similar to earlier versions of totalitarianism analysis, as in the work of Hannah Arendt, for example. FDR was referred to as a fascist by some communists. While at the same time Hitler was called a passing phenomenon—to be followed in turn by a victorious proletarian revolution.
At the same time there is a Trumpism—against urbanism, rationalism, metropolitanism. It is a proto-fascist movement. It is about a dynamic. The proposed “purification” of society. A new anthropology—creating the human anew (as in fascism).
Of some importance, there is a tendency to underestimate the movements of contemporary brownshirts in the US. Some commentators might still assume that real fascists in the US live in bunkers in the desert and are merely odd survivalists. But that is a dangerous misreading of current movements. It is an analysis from the 1990s. Fascists today, and this is one thing that can be said about the Trump campaign, have come above ground.
Trump and Brownshirt Infrastructure
Trump represents the construction wing of Wall Street. He will oversee a regime of infrastructure building particularly of Brownshirt infrastructure. That is infrastructure of repression such as prisons, policing infrastructure. His will be a regime of building as his campaign expressed—build a wall; build prisons; build detention centers. He will provide help to banks and he will provide help to construction industries.
Trump will build his base and reward it through Brownshirt infrastructure and physical infrastructure (roads, bridges, airports). This will help the Midwest and the Rust Belt and shore up his base in those areas. That means it will reinforce the white nationalist base and white nationalist rhetoric.
Tax holidays for corporations to repatriate wealth. If taxed at one percent it could be used to fund Brownshirt infrastructure. Funding would be through banks and governmeNOTIFY: Y | REPLY | REPLY WITH QUOTE | PERMALINK | TOP | HOME
Quote:A president who once marketed himself as wealthy enough to be beyond the control of the billionaire donor class has, in practice, set up the most flagrantly up-for-sale administration of all time. Along the way, he’s managed to propose an absurd “small business” tax cut that does nothing at all for business owners with annual take-home incomes under $700,000 but delivers an enormous amount of money to him personally.
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Meanwhile, under cover of populist rhetoric the Trump administration has:
Made it easier for financial advisers to rip off their clients without consequences.
Reopened a corporate tax loophole that makes it easier for global businesses to stash profits in overseas tax havens.
Adopted an approach to pharmaceutical pricing that Bloomberg’s Max Nisen describes as “more like a pharma wish list than a menu of onerous demands.”
Come out in favor of weakening the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and making bank bailouts more likely.
Trump’s skepticism about climate change is well-known, but his Environmental Protection Agency is also on the side of pesticides that are harmful to children and making it easier to pollute drinking water. There’s nothing specific to climate change or coal about his environmental agenda, in other words; it’s whatever business wants.
On issue after issue after issue on down the line, the Trump agenda is the big-money agenda because the big money filters into Trump’s pockets and Trump has no moral or ideological compass beyond his narrow self-interest. Even when the White House does, on occasion, suggest they will buck the donor class — as when officials hint that approving the AT&T–Time Warner merger may be contingent on CNN covering Trump more favorably — they are quite open about saying it’s a shakedown designed to advance Trump’s personal interests.
www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/17/15976576/trump-russia-distra
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a claim of cosplayers
They claim people are exposed as an undercover agent provocateur, 'inciting agent' a person or group who commits, or who acts to entice another. Entrapment in which a law enforcement agent or an agent of the state induces a person to commit a "crime" the government false flag operation is an act committed with the intent of disguising the actual source of responsibility. The fifth column is a group of people who undermine a larger group or nation from within. Outside agitator is a term that has been used to discount political unrest as being driven by outsiders In Canada August 2007, during meetings of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America in Montebello, three police officers were revealed among the protesters by Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, and alleged to be provocateurs. During the 2010 G20 Toronto summit, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested five people, two of whom were members of the Toronto Police Service.
claim on video
The FBI's Side Gig, Patriot Front, Goes Off The Rails When An Actual Conservative Group Unmasks And Assaults Them
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off-the-rails-when-an-actual-conservative-group-unmasks-and-assaults-them
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Mask-wearing pussies.
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Trump will be fine.
He will also be your next President. 
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