A book on Fascism in the age of the internet by the anti-fascist podcast 12 Rules For What. Illustrated by Want Some Studio. Published by Dog Section Press, 2021.
Contents
- Authors’ note 6
- Dedication 7
- Introduction 9
- Fascist Feelings 27
- Metapolitics and Aesthetics 44
- Conspiracy Theory 63
- The Swarm and The Influencer 83
- The Right’s Intellectuals 107
- The Street 119
- New Organisational Forms 135
- Deadly Violence 155
- Ecofascism 183
- Contemporary Anti-fascism 192
- Postscript: Beyond Trump 210
- Notes 218
The far right has changed. Since the rise of the internet, it has scattered, diversified, and stuck itself back together. The internet has facilitated these tendencies, filtering and contorting familiar forms of activity and ideology, and pushed far-right groups to adapt, causing the decline of some formations and the break-up of others. But the far right has not gone away – far from it – it is more powerful now than it has been for a generation. It has produced new configurations of tactics, priorities, and goals. Those who have survived the arrival of the internet have found a greater capacity to exert power than at any point since the Second World War.
The far right is in a state of productive diversification. It has yet to cohere around a new stable formulation; however, it almost certainly will, and we must be ready for it.
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Comments
Hastily scribbled notes from…
Hastily scribbled notes from when I read this:
Interesting small book from the 12 Rules For What podcast. Actually a lot more readable than the bits they read out aloud on the show led me to believe. Explains the various currents of European/US fascism concisely and well. Some good bits on their limitations (for example the precarious relationship that online grifter "influencers" have with their "swarm" of fans). Quite useful for old farts who have their analysis of this stuff rooted in the 1980s and 1990s, I think. Makes some suggestions for what could be done at the end but wisely ends by saying that these things really need to be worked through by a movement. Good stuff on how climate change is going to fuck everything up and what this means for anti-fascists too - their next book is on eco-fascism.