Link: On the Rule of Capital, Climate Crisis & the Rise of Fascism in the Pig Empire

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Editor’s note: I’m legitimately in the middle of seven things right now, not the least of which is wrapping up the show notes for a new episode of No Fugazi; which is naturally why I was super thrilled to lose internet access for huge portions of yesterday, forcing me to retreat to my heated garage with my offline laptop.

The upshot here is I wrote something while I was out there; a salon or lecture hall style discussion about the connection between the rule of capital, impending climate catastrophe and the rise of fascism across much of the Pig Empire:

Climate Crisis and the Fascist Moment

Stuck in my garage without the internet, I sat down to answer two simple, but important questions about the rise of modern, westernized fascism. First, why are reactionary billionaires and significant portions of the ruling classes turning towards fascism in countries we typically call liberal democracies? Secondly, why are ruling elites who have successfully gamed democracy to control society for centuries at this point, suddenly turning towards fascist methods of control now? The answer, I believe, could not be more obvious if it punched us in the face; we’re running out of planet, and time to save billions of people who don’t happen to be rich.