The “Network” Case and the Fascist Future Everywhere
If twenty years ago the post-Soviet world was “catching up” with the so-called “West,” it is the opposite today: post-Soviet Russia is the future of the West.
If twenty years ago the post-Soviet world was “catching up” with the so-called “West,” it is the opposite today: post-Soviet Russia is the future of the West.
Russia’s noodling around, egging rightward mischief here and there, while entangled in shady deals worth millions, is a dark-money connection worth understanding.
The power of feminism right now is that it can be a uniting tool to make people understand how their struggles are related. We are much more powerful when we are fighting together and learning from each other than if we stick to our little pet cause or only work with what’s in front of us instead of working from a systemic analysis.
They’re doing the practice of internationalist solidarity better than the left has done. It just happens to be this congress of the damned.
2016: “We do have an opportunity, and it’s our opportunity to lose. We have to get our shit together and seize it. Periods of repression and hardship don’t automatically translate into more resistance.”
We’re probably incapable, as a society, of forming even a tenuous temporary popular front in the case of extreme emergency. We can’t even appeal, it seems, to the basic precept that genocide is bad. That’s scary.
The more publicity this case gets, the safer our comrades will be in remand prison from violence at the hands of prison stooges and more torture at the hands of the FSB.
Anti-imperialists may believe they are on the right side of history. But history has already shown the results of opposing a liberal order through red-brown populist collaboration.
The Putin regime has a flagrantly necrophiliac tendency. Even under Stalin, there was nothing like this savoring of death.
Antifascism is not radical. It is normal.