revolut1917 [none/use name]

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  • I think you have to see those early 20th century fascist states and the success they had in domestic repression as a direct consequence of WW1 and the mass politics that emerged from it. You had explicitly anti-democratic, militarised states being run by and for millions of traumatised, radicalised veterans of a brutal war. I don’t know whether it’s really possible to achieve the same totality of repression in the present epoch within the imperial core, it doesn’t seem to have worked for them so far, all that’s happened has been escalation of confrontation and delegitimisation of the bourgeois order. In the periphery of course it’s very much possible to sustain totalitarian dictatorship given the endless support that the imperial countries provide for such governments.