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The New Global Fascist Bloc: Part III; The God-Given Right to Rule, Pt II.
The control of the masses is key to the success of any populist or fascist movement. But how the leaders do it, the degree of unspoken interaction, the depth of the libidinal ties that forge the bonds of loyalty between the leader & his followers is key to understanding the dynamics of this relationship, and how they might explain the irrationality of spontaneous violence that often follows.
18 min readMar 24, 2025
‘Since the collapse of actually existing socialism and the abrupt ending of the Cold War that had polarized the world along the lines of contending theories of modernization, there has been a steady attempt to recover historical intensities that had been displaced by the reduction of political differences to a dyadic struggle between ʻtotalitarianismʼ and the ʻfree world.ʼ Almost as if the flood gates had been lifted, the suppressed experiences of a prior age have been unleashed into the new time announced by the post-Cold War, reminding the present that the past had not really disappeared so much as been shelved in our midst…/…One of the more important casualties of this…
