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Will Capitalism Be The End of Us All?

Identitarian fascism is tied explicitly to the continuation of capitalism, but hides in plain sight behind narratives that disguise its blatant racism & deny the existential nature of the threats humanity faces using bald-faced lies shot through with ignorance clothed as scepticism & reclaiming lost freedoms. The fight against fascism in the 21st century is being lost, & we must do more…

33 min readApr 11, 2025
Jacques-Louis David, The Lictors bring Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, 1789. Brutus mourns in the right foreground, while the women coddle the children in the background.
Jacques-Louis David, The Lictors bring Brutus the Bodies of his Sons, 1789. The personification of patriarchy at the heart of revolutionary France. The declaration of the Rights of Men pointedly excluded women. Here David reinforces the idea of the traditional family, following the immense contemporary influence of Rousseau’s novel, Emile, 1762. In the above painting we see Brutus, the stern faced Roman patrician mourning his losses, while the women of the household remain in the background, clutching and caring for the second class offspring, the daughters.

‘It bears terrifying witness to what happened to everyone who got here, and paid the price of the ticket. The price was to become ‘white.’ No one was white before he/she came to America. It took generations and vast amount of coercion, before this (America) became a white country.’

James Baldwin; On being white …and other lies, 1984.

Old Orange Donald had a Funny Farm, e-i-e-i-whooooaa! 🎶

On November 4, 1938, FDR said:

‘I dare to say that if American democracy ceased to progress as a living force, seeking night and day by peaceful means to improve the condition of our citizens, the power of Fascism…

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Peter Winn-Brown
Peter Winn-Brown

Written by Peter Winn-Brown

The past can illuminate the present if we shine the light of inquiry openly, truthfully, with attention to detail & care for the salient facts.

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