Attempting to brand Harris as a communist or socialist is also absurd. In the USSR and the Eastern European satellites, the collapse of communist regimes around 1990 led

The charge that Harris is a Marxist is absolutely absurd. Has she read and endorsed all three volumes of Das Kapital? What does she think about the falling rate of profit? How about the dictatorship of the proletariat or the withering away of the state? Does she talk of the need to expropriate the imperialist finance bourgeoisie? Some reporter from the controlled corporate media should ask Trump what he knows about Marxism, since he obviously knows nothing

the Supreme Court, quite possibly the military. (Both Mussolini and Hitler were veterans of World War I, and veterans were a large part of their recruits.) MAGA has declared in public that it has long since left the terrain of the United States Constitution behind, and is busily abolishing long-standing rights on the way to totalitarian dictatorship.

By these criteria, MAGA has transitioned into fascism as of no later than January 6, 2021. This includes MAGA supporters in the states, the Congress, the federal judiciary,

. Omnipotence, omniscience, infallibility, invincibility, and magical powers are ascribed to the fetishized leader as a matter of fascist party discipline. The followers are often purblind to failures, crimes, and insanity until a breaking point is reached or the dictator is no longer on the scene. Many of these patterns are sadly familiar to the Americans of our time.

Both Mussolini and Hitler were adamant that fascism is a religion. In more modern terms, we might describe it as a cult, where members cease to be individuals in the full sense.
Fascism typically develops as a personality cult around the Duce, Führer, Caudillo, Maréchal, Căpitanul, or Vozhd

Fascism must promote forms of raving anti-science irrationalism, obscurantism, and mysticism, as for example Hitler’s racist Aryan mythology or QAnon. Note that racism is not something different from fascism but is included in it, since racist hatred, oppression, and especially genocide have often been subsumed as an integral part of fascism itself.

Violence and political terrorism on a large scale must be seen as the hallmarks of fascism. A good way to decide if a reactionary has been radicalized into a fascist is to check for acts of political terrorism or support for such violence. Without violence, you do not have fascism. Fascism must work towards mass stupefaction and dumbing down (Verblödung, rimbecillimento) of its dupes lest they act according to their own enlightened rational self-interest.

of its dupes lest they act according to their own enlightened rational self-interest. Fascism must promote forms of raving anti-science irrationalism, obscurantism, and mysticism, as for example Hitler’s racist Aryan mythology or QAnon. Note that racism is not something different from fascism but is included in it, since racist hatred, oppression, and especially genocide have often been subsumed as an integral part of fascism itself.

Violence and political terrorism on a large scale must be seen as the hallmarks of fascism. A good way to decide if a reactionary has been radicalized into a fascist is to check for acts of political terrorism or support for such violence. Without violence, you do not have fascism. Fascism must work towards mass stupefaction and dumbing down (Verblödung, rimbecillimento)

there is also a strong argument that the original prototype for 20th century fascism on both sides of the Atlantic is the original Ku Klux Klan in the defeated Confederacy after 1865. The KKK can be seen as a political terrorist organization acting as the armed wing of political forces determined to subjugate the former slaves, preventing their political activism and enforcing brutal economic exploitation and subordination.

Although fascism in Italy and Germany between the world wars is most widely studied,

The mass movement is what makes fascism fundamentally different from a traditional police state or other form of authoritarian dictatorship. Under fascism, working people are gaslighted and manipulated into attacking and oppressing themselves based on false consciousness.

This gives rise to fascist movements, meaning that fascism is not exclusively a top-down dictatorship, but has an indispensable bottom-up radicalized mass component which is cultivated among guttersnipes, criminals, and other victims of a society ravaged by economic breakdown.

as part of a divide and conquer strategy to keep opposition to the regime fragmented and impotent. Concentration camps and slave labor are increasingly instituted. Deportation is a favorite tactic.

FASCISM can emerge when the economic breakdown crisis deepens, as after World War I. The ruling class and its supporters in the upper middle-classes may turn to violence and systematic political terrorism, carried out through gangs of hooligans, goons, and strikebreakers they hire to impede government functions or to smash opposition parties and labor organizations. Minorities are violently scapegoated

Reactionaries, however, generally pursue these goals within the framework of established governing institutions as positions of strength, preserving the illusion of formal democracy and representative government as long as representatives of the traditional ruling class can be kept in power.

reactionaries are often nostalgic for the way wealthy planters ruled the slave society of the American South before the Civil War. Reactionaries want to destroy labor unions, take away economic rights like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, minimum wage and child labor laws while degrading the status of women, limiting the right to vote, imposing brutal economic austerity, and discriminating against minorities.

Among the very few conservatives active today, we can cite former federal Judge Luttig.
If a stock market panic, economic depression, or today’s breakdown crisis of globalization has made the status quo intolerable for conservatives, many of them become REACTIONARIES. The word originally referred to people in Europe who wanted to turn the clock back to before the French Revolution, meaning monarchy, feudal nobility and aristocratic rule. In the United States,

the United States never engaged in a systematic policy of appeasing fascism. This is the powerful historical tradition of opposition to fascism waiting to be mobilized in opposition to anti-constitutional political forces that have been convincingly identified as fascist.