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Communist etc. Intellectual history, philosophy, Young Hegelianism, Marx, Vormärz studies. Academic mercenary ⟶ magnusz.dk
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DANISH MARXISM 🚀🚀📈
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Thank you :) This is more current: magnusz.dk/files/F24_Ma...
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Mener du så heller ikke, at det er GPS’ens skyld, hvis den ikke advarer om en fartfælde, så man får en bøde???
Absurd
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Absolutely! I also agree 100 pct. that right-wing populist enable the slide that makes it possible for fascists to exploit those procedures (case in point: GOP). I just still think the distinction is meaningful, but maybe that’s just the philosopher in me being a stickler for conceptual clarity :)
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Also: bsky.app/profile/magn...
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I think you mistake my argument for making an analytical distinction with an argument for tolerating right-wing populists.
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I think the GOP is a fascist party! It was right-wing populist for many years, but imo they’ve been completely captured by forces that do not care about electoral politics except as a means to other ends. It’s not that they want to abolish lib dem but that they don’t care about its constraints.
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Yes, and if the AfD does indeed intend to do that then I think it makes sense to call them a fascist party! But do they? Maybe there’s still an ongoing factional battle in the AfD between a right-wing populist and a genuinely fascist faction. I don’t know!
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But don’t you think there is still a meaningful distinction to be made between right-wing populist parties that see competition in the space of electoral politics within the institution of liberal democracy as an end, and fascist parties that view the cooption of that process as a means?
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And maybe the AfD are fascists in that sense! Or maybe in another sense. My impression is that *as an organisation* they are more of the first type, i.e., competing within the space of electoral politics, but I don’t know - which is why I’m asking.
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But then they are fascists! Is my point. But I think it’s a meaningful distinction to make that right-wing populists want to promote their ideas with the space of competitive electoral politics offers by liberal democracy, while fascists only exploit liberal democracy when useful for other ends.
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within the space of electoral politics. That is not the case for fascist parties. (But to be clear I think we should fight both right-wing populists and fascists by many other and better means than the ballot box!!)
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and imo you will not see them organise a Jan 6 style event. While they might flirt with authoritarianism they are fundamentally part of the institution of bourgeois liberal democracy itself. That’s why I say they can (theoretically) be fought at the ballot box: their main objective is competition
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Sure! But I’d say Trump is a fascist - precisely because he does not respect or operate within the confines of liberal democracy, only exploits it. I don’t know about the AfD (why I ask!) but e.g. the Danish People’s Party see themselves as constrained by elections and norms of liberal democracy
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Yes! The völkisch ideology of restoring the nation by purging corrupt and foreign elements is shared heritage for sure. But right-wing populists are part of and operate within the institution of liberal democracy, which I don’t think is the case for fascists.
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I agree that it is academic in the sense that they should all be combatted equally, but I do also think there’s a politically meaningful distinction. Right wing populist parties operate within the confines of liberal democracy and can be fought at the ballot box, fascists don’t and can’t.
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I think that’s funny and punchy, but I don’t think it’s true 🙂 There’s a meaningful distinction to be made, both politically and analytically, between right-wing populist parties and fascist parties/organisations imo.
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What makes them fascists? Other than Nazi-apologetic posturing for example.
(To be clear I’m complete open to calling them fascist, I just want to know why!)
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The memory context is obv unique, but in terms of policy are the AfD suggesting anything that hasn’t already been suggested a thousand time by Pia Kjærsgaard or Geert Wilders or Jörg Haider or Jimmie Åkesson?
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Bortset fra at han jo altid har været en idiot.
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But it’s also been a minute since I read it so maybe I’m inflating something that annoyed me at the time in my head!
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Maybe my problem is that I’m actually not that interested in his Kant interpretation :) - I’m interested in the contextualisation, so I would like him to do more. He provides some context, but I think he could do more to actually contextualise, i.e., show how Kant is influenced by that context.
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The contextualism is interesting but the actual context is shoved off to a few separate sections. He has an interpretative schema which he sometimes forces on the material. His understanding of an alternative Marxist reading (which he criticises) is really stereotypically bad.
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I thought it was a bit meh to be honest.
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