Nothing specifically homo methinks

by mot-juste

Posted to Poetry and Politics on 2004-03-13 17:36:00

Parent message is 619270
Not in my collection, at least :-).

Fascism does not consist exclusively in racial exclusivity, I think. Moreover, I suspect that Republicans (or any ruling class today, actually) have no use for any racial ideas. They are very functionalistic, so to say; unlike the nazies, they do not have any religious, unjustified beliefs. They use religion, yes — sociologically, to control the masses — but not for internal consuption though. Any racism, today, is bound to play a dysfunctional role organizationally, so it’s a big no no. Which is how it is, if you look at it.

Moreover, the future slave population will definitely be multicolored (the white race is now what, like 10% of the worlds population? And the overall numbers are growing…) so, no, I don’t think any racism-tinged political philosophy will prevail any time soon: one wants to keep the herd in check and placid, happy-happy, joy-joy; any irrational exuberance is bad for business, you see.

And as far as overall social disparities, they’ll disappear with time — in the equality of pauperism. And even for now, even though there are still disparities, it’s easy to make it look like there’s no racism: it’s easy to recruit a number of “colored” persons into the upper layer, and wring the hands.

Capitalism is very internationalistic, much more so than any strain of communism; if the rich are to keep their position of power, they can have no use for nonsense (though they can feed a lot of it to the “worker-bees” — religion, nationalisms of all sorts, gay marriage bullshit, etc.)

But at bottom, race doesn’t matter. Therefore, whatever color they are, they will always find common ground. One of the reason real fascism/nazism failed was that they were actually irrational ideologically. Nature punishes for nonsense elevated into the modus operandi, so fascism, strictly speaking, is very dead. Totalitarism, otoh, is the wave of the future, useful lessons of nazism and stalinism aren’t lost on the current bosses. What works, they’ve appropriated — be it military technology, scientific achievement, or ideology. Democrats may be worse than republicans in that respect, they love social engineering, which is impossible w/o having every one by the balls.