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“When did property ever listen to reason except when cowed by violence.” C.L.R. James in The Black Jacobins

I mostly see it as an attempt to co-opt labor/reform movements by institutionalizing them and, while ostensibly legitimizing them, ultimately setting boundaries that view real material changes as too radical and ends up just supporting the interests of capital in an effort to manufacture the appearance of some kind of social harmony.

The only case I’ve specifically read deeply into is Austria where there’s a rich debate about whether they were “fascist” and what that means and what they were. It was several years ago and I can’t recall any names but in my initial post “austro-fascism” is a research term that’s going to get you right into the debate. Wikipedia is a reasonable place to start—iirc they were called the Fatherland Front?

Beyond that, my encounters have been more through histories that cover these periods and regimes but aren’t necessarily focus on the specific question of corporatism. Priest, Politician, Collaborator looks at Tiso, the puppet in Slovakia. Hugh Thomas’ The Spanish Civil War isn’t “about” corporatism but does discuss the ideological underpinnings of Franco and I just had a similar experience with Lisbon by Neill Lochery looking at Salazar’s corporatist beliefs weighed against the fear of invasion as a small state by its larger, nominal ideological neighbor in Spain.

The early phase of Italian fascism is worth looking into, too. The fascist manifesto was written by some modern artists and Italy remain in some ways weirdly constitutional as is synthesized Mussolini’s politics into and on top of existing political structures.

It has its origins, per the image leading the preview, in medieval guild systems. While this is a broad statement involving putting modern labels om historical insititions, there were explicit historical sources of inspiration for those who articulated modern corporatism, including in two Papal encyclicals, as a way to address labor relations and head off communism/left-wing solutions and create economic accord within a traditionalist/paternalist/Catholic framework.

Corporatism became an explicit ideological component of many fascist (or at least reactionary authoritarian) movements largely attributable to copying Mussolini: it heavily influenced the pre-Anschluss Austria government (“Austro-fascism”), Falangism in Spain, the Estado Novo in Portugal—and other countries where it was less centrally articulated but still an influencing concept under “Clerical-fascism” such as Nazi-controlled Slovakia which was led by a priest who was thrilled to lick Hitler’s boots.

Worth the read and worth looking into more beyond Wikipedia! It’s important to understand the ideological underpinning’s of ones enemies—especially when they’re (marginally) more intellectually articulated than “minorities bad.”

Zuck Fark Muckerberg.

Fuck Jeff Bezos.

Lemon Pound Cake

Only because Ghaddafi was toppled. The old green flag would have fit nicely to the right of Saudi Arabia.

Technically the answer should be “that depends.” Asking “can I place a particular kind of meat in a microwave” is a question of relative volumes that can’t be answered without more information. How big is the chihuahua steak and how small is the microwave?

For the curious the huge spikes are temporarily employed census workers.

The way I see the only chance is if Peter Thiel backs a Trump removal sometime after the midterms. In that case we would have Trump out.

On the other hand, the goal would be so that J. D. “Couchfucker” Vance can serve the remainder of his term and then still be constitutionally eligible for two terms, leading to a decade of President J. D. “I Also Fucked Erika Kirk Because I Actually Hate My Wife Who Isn’t White And Isn’t Christian” Vance 🫡🇺🇸🛋️💦✝️🙏

3 bedroom, 3.5 baths, and a detached guesthouse. This isn’t some studio apartment. It’s a lot, but it’s also by no stretch of imagination the most insanely priced house on the market?

How do people keep buying that the right are going to save the NHS?

I genuinely love vanity plates. I think they’re a really fun way to express youself and the plate goes with you regardless of context: you’ve got the same plate in the office parking lot and at the hobby group.

I’ve seen hobby and interest references, from LAXBRO to NCC1701. I’ve seen meta plates, from the VW Beetle with SCARAB to the Nissan Cube with RUBIKS. I’ve seen professional references, BONEMAN (a podiatrist) to CSHFLO (somebody I knew who worked in finance).

And I’ve once seen SQRTRGY which I can only imagine means “squirt orgy” but I’ll never know.

I know it’s a little thing, but I think it’s fun. (Doesn’t make up the pollution and danger of cars, tho.)

Seat bonuses are how Italian fascists seized power originally. Mussolini’s stooge is the namesake of the Acerbo Law that gave a 2/3 majority to the largest party.

Why is this interview happening inside a sauna?

*kleptocrat, not technocrat

If you ever find yourself in Philadelphia, go see the Olympia, an 1895 protected cruiser and Dewey’s flagship at Manila.

This is what Žižek called the “unknown known” in reference to Donald Rumsfeld’s famous speech. That America had, all along, and knew that it had, all along, the capacity for evil and torture, but chose not to confront it or admit it prior to the war.

I never thought about it that was; that’s a great point about the mechanism for differentiation.

I get what you mean about preachers. I’ve heard Raphael Warnock in person in both political and religious contexts and that man can hold an audience.