Desperately Seeking Fascism.
Desperately Seeking Fascism. They may not like what they actually get. Aurelien A spectre is haunting the Professional and Managerial Caste (PMC) of the western world, together with their captive media, and their political expression, The Party. There have been similar spectres in the past—notably of Revolution, Communism and War—and all sorts of agents proposed as manufacturers or enablers of these spectres, ranging from the Jesuits to the Illuminati, the Freemasons to the Jews, the KGB to the CIA. At the time of writing, amongst widespread political violence in Europe and with more of it anticipated, the usual pundits are out in force, blaming the usual suspects. Yet the spectre I have in mind here goes back a century, and ways of visualising it, and fearing it, have hardly progressed in all that time. Fascism—since that is what we are talking about here—has squatted like an ugly spider in the the middle of the political web since that time. The word, as George Orwell put it “h...
