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Fascisme, nazisme et régimes autoritaires en Europe (Paperback, PUF)

Un ouvrage général, mais malgré tout pointu, sur les notions de #fascisme, #nazisme et de #RégimesAutoritaires. L'auteur parvient à couvrir, en un peu moins de 300 pages, et à l'aide d'une abondante bibliographie, les traits qui définissent ces #idéologies du début du 20è siècle. Tout comme l'a fait Philippe Burrin, dans le livre précédemment lu, il met le doigt sur ce qui distingue l' #autoritarisme du #totalitarisme, le fascisme d'autres formes d' #ExtrêmeDroite.

Cette lecture permet aussi de montrer que notre époque, même si elle présente des similarités avec cette période, s'en différencie aussi énormément. Le monde n'est plus du tout celui du tournant entre le 19e et le 20e siècle. Comme on dit, l'histoire ne repasse jamais deux fois les plats, mais elle hoquette. La détérioration de nos démocraties post-Seconde Guerre Mondiale n'a rien à voir avec les balbutiements des démocraties d'il y a …

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Launch of “The Next Wave” Report on Anti-Gender Movement published by the Parliamentary Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Rights https://www.epfweb.org/node/1146
"A new alliance of religious , , and oligarchic funders is reshaping European politics. Backed by private wealth and legitimised through state funding"

Here's the French version of the report for free: https://www.epfweb.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/EPF_EN_TOTI_9SEP%20DEF-FR_Final%20.pdf

It's worth bearing in mind as we read more and more news about "AI" being shoved into every nook and cranny of the US federal government:

The right loves AI-generated imagery. In a short time, a full half of the political spectrum has collectively fallen for the glossy, disturbing visuals created by generative AI. Despite its proponents having little love, or talent, for any form of artistic expression, right wing visual culture once ranged from memorable election-year posters to ‘terrorwave’. Today it is slop, almost totally.

From AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/

I'm not finding the reference right now but I've read similar observations about writing as well: the political right used to have talented writers, but nowadays not so much.

(This is not an invitation for "duh, they're just MAGA idiots" responses or variations on that theme. I'm as frustrated as the next person about …

The admin notified 4 major orgs that they would have to give up their dedicated office space at the .

A Dept of spox said that The , News, & had to vacate their offices by Feb 14.

Murdoch’s will replace The NYT; cable channel will be swapped in for News; News will be a radio outlet instead of NPR; & the news outlet , owned by BuzzFeed, will switch w/ Politico.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/business/media/pentagon-press-corps.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

It’s today; on Saturday, told 's party to "move beyond" guilt.

Fresh off a controversy over a gesture many saw as a Nazi salute, billionaire Elon Musk appeared virtually at a campaign event for a far-right German political party on Saturday, where he urged listeners not to be ashamed of their country's history.

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/27/nx-s1-5276084/elon-musk-german-far-right-afd-holocaust

Karl Popper's Paradox of Intolerance, and how it's application leads one to regretfully conclude that, indeed to punch a nazi might be the only thing that can be done to prevent further damage to society when public display of fascist insignia & signals is encountered.

Of course this is youtube, so I can't say that. I called it ".. doing the thing" instead.

Enjoy.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=8PYabKtmeSg

: "Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory—but they didn’t. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote.

To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. Race, intelligence, territory, and precious metal would be bulwarks against progressive politics. Reading and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they articulated a philosophy of three hards—hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money—and forged the alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists, and goldbugs that would become known as the alt-right.

Following Hayek’s bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the …