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Star Wars is fascist, Harry Potter is fascist neo-feudal dreck, selfie-obsession is fascist, British soap-operas are fascist, sci-fi is generally fascist, ironic detachment is fascist, porn is fascist. Masscult under imperialism is inherently fascistic. Sorry to spoil your 'fun'.
One day people will ask: "How did Anglo-Americans not see their own fascism?" And part of the answer will be: "Because they were entertained by it".
Many westerners seem to think their 'entertainments' & their consumption of 'culture' in their own countries is somehow detached from the fascist ruling class they live under, & the ruling class is well aware of this situation.
This does not mean i'm a 'cultural nihilist', far from it. It means the 'culture' of the imperialists is reactionary to the core, particularly its most 'successful' franchises, what progressive part therein is wholly stolen from the oppressed & turned against them.
Me: "The culture of fascist society is fascist culture."
Some yankee teenager: "Are you a virgin??"
"But i like Star Wars and i'm a progressive??" -- Said the yankee teenager as he gorged on his milkshake thickened with the bones of African farmers.
Sorry I forgot: meme/anime as political medium is fascist too.
Is Tolkien fascist? Yes of course, and he made little attempt in hiding it.
Simpsons? Glorification of Amerika, mockery of PoC & the poor: yep, fascist.
Towie? valorisation of brain-dead petty booj Brits, image commodification & booj 'beauty values': yep, fascist.
Im a celeb? Same as above but on colonized land: yep fascist.
The superficial exceptionalizing of fascism, its constant reduction into some minor caricature, some individual politican, some thing of the past or some 'rogue' element of bourgeois society, enables the widespread normalisation of fascism under guise of its alleged annihilation.
Ironic detachment as political discourse = Privileged apathy, petty bourgeois insouciance.
Aestheticisation of politics = Fascism.
"Weird twitter", whether of a 'left' or 'right' flavour = fascist aesthetic. The deliberate ruling class-led attempt to confuse, disorient, split & sabotage political consciousness.
"Politics is boring! We're making it fun with our jokes & weird aesthetics!" - No, its just that petty booj yoots have no material interest in working-class political struggle, they're simply following the cues of ruling class shock-jocks paid to rot people's brains.
What the weirdo nihilist aesthetes dont realise is that when they grow up & lose their allowances & their inheritences they will lose their ironic detachment, & politics will be far from boring, politics will define their entire lives (it does already, they just dont realise it).
Quentin Tarantino: FASCIST.
Hollywood: FASCIST.
Steven Spielberg: FASCIST.
"The ruling class control the cinemas?? But but, i reeeaaally enjoyed Full Metal Jacket, that was so cool! So r-r-radical!?? They surely can't control ALL the teevee aswell, can they? I mean The Wire was such a great non-fascist show???"
Lots of youths have seemingly interpreted the above as me saying "Everything is fascism!", because for lots of these unfortunate youths, imperialist-fascist entertainment is their entire 'everything'.
Memes are bad, they restrict knowledge & nullify the capacity to learn dialectically, rather than expand it. Ben Norton loves memes, thus i am all the more convinced they are not conducive to Marxist learning. Very simply put, 'meme' is infantilisation of information/education, & i'm sorry to have to tell you but infants dont wage revolutions.
Next up on the apparently 'contraversial' cultural hit-list of fascist society for western teens.
GI-Joe: Fascist.
Judge Dredd: Fascist
Superman & 'Superhero' shite in general: Fascist.
The entire concept of individual 'superhumans'/'superpowers' is in itself embedded in both capitalist & feudal mythology, or 'plot devices'. That is the only route all such notions can go. For there to be "supermen", one must presuppose there are also "undermen".
One that may particularly upset many British teenage-brains:
Doctor Who: FASCIST.
All your favourite 'Zombie Apocalypse' phantasmagoria: FASCIST.
'amerikkka' is fascist. A fascist State to be precise. It's political & cultural manifestations are by & large fascist in character. This is only controversial to dumb Americans.
This one will really annoy the Chapo-Fash-Kids.
Frank Herbert: FASCIST.
Dune: FASCISM.
Common strain among the rabid reaction from the Chapo 'Lefts', the 'Alt-Rights', to 'Meme-Maoists' & the open Nazis is the fact they all loathe fascism being made concrete & relatable to their own lives. They like their fascist culture & they wont be told its anything but Good.
These kids can't "fight fascism" in their own tiny brains, in the mass-cult screen-products they giddily swallow all day, what hope for them of actually fighting anything concrete? Oh they'll share mighty-memes of a Dick Spenser ear-tickle, we're all saved!
I wonder, will the kewl kids find this one a little less 'controversial'?
The Lone Ranger & 'the western' film genre: FASCIST.
No you can't enjoy fascist propaganda & pretend to be a Marxist at the same time, no.
This conversation has already been had, no 'gotcha' i'm afriad, sci-fi is prefixed with 'generally fascist', there are exceptions, Soviet cinema being one. Tho i dont personally like any conflation of science & fiction under our banners.
"What do you like then? What do you for fun then oh pious one??" They all scream. Isn't it self-evident? I like fucking over fascists.