Last exit fascism

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Once upon a time there was a writer named Bertolt Brecht who said: "In 
special times it's a crime to speak about trees." At that time there wasn't 
an ecologist movement, we would say it not in other words, but the message is 
clear: in special times you are forced to speak about things that have 
priority. It may sound pathetic, but language is the only weapon we have.

Sorry, dear lit-crits, but now I'm talking about other things. The situation 
in Germany, Austria and other countries forces me to do so. The news I heard 
from the party convention of the Republican party point at the same 
direction. Two decades of social-darwinist and neoliberal propaganda led us 
in a situation where now new forms of fascim have appeared. It began with the 
Pinochet-Friedman-connection in the midst of the seventies and the end of the 
keynesian era. So the new form of fascism is a "market fascism". The Nazi 
fascism (and Mussolini and Franco and...) was a kind of "right-wing 
keynesianism" but nowadays we have a complete different situation. The public 
sphere is getting smaller and smaller, everything is more and more 
commercialized, and if the development is going on you'll have to pay for 
breathing one day... and you cannot emigrate anywhere. There are no longer 
"islands of peace and innocence" - if that had ever existed. The new market 
fascim is a worldwide phenomenon, and it's everywhere the same - it doesn't 
matter any longer if you go to Nea Zealand, Argentina or South Africa. In the 
"centres of paralysis" (James Joyce) the "democratic" propaganda in the media 
remembers me sometimes at the real socialist propaganda - rising gross income 
product, a booming economy, everyone can get rich if he/she really wants - at 
the same time rising poverty, rising debts, and a public infrastructure that 
is getting worse and worse - the Potemkin villages of the real existing 
capitalism. It doesn't matter any longer if you have any political 
"legitimation" for your crimes. The runners amok and the young Nazis are 
symptoms for the same "social disease" and psycho-pathology. And a society 
who begins to make war against its own youth shows only that it has no 
future. They need no SS-uniforms or a new "Fuehrer". There may be a lot of 
local leaders or local terror activists, but the mob is only the "executive" 
part of a decadent society which is full of indifference, ego-maniacs and 
money-obsessed. 
Again: this may be sound "pathetic" but when I'm looking at trees in the same 
moment I must think at "The rise and fall of Mahagonny"...
And isn't Vineland exactly about this subject? 1984, eh? What's about 2004???

kwp
"Who speaks about fascism cannot be silent about capitalism." (Max Horkheimer)