VLVL II: "What is Fascism?" (fwd)

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

* Hey there, thought some of you may be interested ... What's irritating
about this (just got the mail: haven't had time to check the book) is the
immediate identification of islamic fundamentalism with fascism (chapter 10)
and, especially, the thesis that there is a "new European consent" towards
the islamist rebellion against the western world (chapter 11). This is obviously
not the case. Just read any article about the Kopftuch(head-scarf) question.
Should muslim girls be allowed to wear a head-scarf in the classroom? And if they
do although it's forbidden, do we have the right to call them (or their parents)
"fascists"? What do black muslims in the USA say about this?

KFL +

Ps. to Dave Monroe: Ernst Bloch ("Atheismus im Christentum") elaborated the internal
mediations of Christianity and Marxism already in the early 1960s. 


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From: "Akronos Publishing" <info at aetherometry.com>
To: <deleuze-guattari at lists.village.virginia.edu>
Subject: New from Akronos Publishing: "What is Fascism?"


AKRONOS Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the sixth monograph 
in the series "Philosophy of Science and the Politics of Thought":

    What Is Fascism: Is There Any Fascism Left?
    by Paulo Correa & Alexandra Correa
    
    http://www.aetherometry.com/AS1-06_index.html
    

ABSTRACT:

Our epoch prides itself on having defeated fascism, on being an epoch
which is no longer fascist.  In fact, it is impossible these days to 
claim to be a fascist without appearing quaint -  and no serious 
mass-movement overtly invokes fascism as its ideology or as its politics.  
Fascism either is no more, or it has reached a point of complete 
dissimulation.  Which is it?  To determine this, one is obliged to 
examine anew the nature of fascism, beyond the artificial and arbitrary
delimitations that appear to dissolve its meaning and erase its reality, 
past and present. When one hears that there can be no 'authentic fascism 
before democracy' or unless it arises within a democracy, from a democracy; 
or that fascism is nationalistic and not a transnational movement; or 
that it is synonymous with totalitarianism, or with the dictatorship of 
a party-police machine; or that it is a secular movement and not a 
religious one, etc, etc - one knows that those who fashion these glib 
reductions are effectively producing a loss of descriptive power of the 
term 'fascism' by practicing the obfuscation of its difference.  Thus 
fascism has acquired a modern invisibility that is intent on precluding 
any connection of its pathology to power, terrorism, leftism, revolution, 
war, and all the present epochal forms of collective suicide.  

This state of affairs betrays still deeper psychosocial constraints
operating at unconscious levels of modern human activity.  Indeed,
present-day forms of social organization have incorporated so many of
the control and conditioning methods, rules, techniques and
dispositives of fascism, and insinuated them so deeply into everyday
life, that no one recognizes fascism any longer, nor its distinguishing
traits, for what they are.  Hence, the term has lost its descriptive
and analytical power, its real senses and utility, to the benefit of
the dissemination of fascism throughout civil society - a sociological
phenomenon which a circumscribed meaning of the term is no longer able
to encompass.

Yet, to avoid repeating the grave mistakes of epochs past, to further
the analysis of socio-historical processes or invent better
_potentialities_ for the living and its understanding, appears today,
more than ever, to be conditional upon a real grasp of what fascism
actually is, and what constitutes its defining difference.  This is the
challenge the present monograph takes up -- from an entirely novel and
provocative perspective.

Contents:

1.  What's in a word like 'fascism'?
2.  The fasces as metaphor of society and the 'problem of war'
3.  Fascism and the rise of populist Imperators
4.  Fascism as utopia secreted by the Left: civil strife, popular 
    revolutions and the party-police apparatus
5.  The fascist need for a mythical saviour
6.  The corporativist veneer of fascism
7.  The suicidary and genocidal sociopathic nature of fascism
8.  Is the Left also fascist?
9.  The final decomposition of the Left: from two to many
10. The controversy surrounding islamic fascism
11. The new European consent to islamic fascism
12. The victory of fascism: its molecularizing and its unconscious basis
13. Are there no more fascists left, or has everyone turned fascist?
REFERENCES 


Yours,

Laura McFinlay
Akronos Publishing




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