Varoufakis argues global elites are following a “blueprint for the revival of fascism”, one he imagines dictators Mussolini, Hitler and Franco might have written “had [they] gotten together in 1945”.
He told the audience the modern “manual” starts by attacking crony capitalism, big business and financial elite — views traditionally associated with the political left – before turning against democratic institutions such as public broadcasters and universities.
https://thepoint.com.au/news/260312-varoufakis-fascism-is-darkening-our-doorsteps
Should there be a link?
EDIT: Found it https://thepoint.com.au/news/260312-varoufakis-fascism-is-darkening-our-doorsteps
Oh sorry, thank you for that. I always use the web address in the URL space but sometimes I forget to include it in the Main body section. I’ll put it up now so people can access it from there as well as your comment.
The URL - i.e. where you go when you click the post title when you have the comments open - looks to just point to the header image, not to the article.
EDIT: Actually, I think the URL probably is empty, because there’s no domain shown under the title.
That’s strange. I did put the address in the URL space and then saved the image separately because it did not come up automatically as this set up does with articles from such as The Guardian and The Conversation. If I make this mistake again please let me know.
I think ‘Image’ overrides ‘URL’ (i.e. your post can be a link, or it can be an image, not both). I think what you’ll want to do is use the ‘Thumbnail URL’ field instead.
Thank you. I’ll use the Thumbnail URL. Can you explain to me the difference? I am not very tech-savvy.
I can’t find any documentation describing the purpose of each field, but here’s what I reckon the situation is:
‘URL’ and ‘Image’ are fields for the main content of a post (which is why you can only actually specify one).
‘Thumbnail URL’, on the other hand, is a field for providing additional data for nicely displaying the post.
In Lemmy, the way an image specified in ‘Image’ or ‘Thumbnail URL’ is actually displayed is the same, but I suspect the two fields could be displayed differently in some other Fediverse application.
Ok, thank you. I’ll experiment and see what happens.
This. Shit needs a warning, very unintuitive.
Yeah, I think this has happened with a number of your posts.
From a quick scroll through your post history:
How is what’s happennig today fashism? Why history bros think everything has happened already? Speed of information was never this fast… Todays problems are new actually, why can’t they accept?
Before you say “hey it’s a warning/analogy”, the dude used the word blueprint. It’s literal.
Fascism is a broader tent than, say, Italian Fascism or Nazism. But lets take an extreme example to first illustrate that the term ‘fascism’ is relevant today - there are organisations on our streets (e.g. the NSN) loudly and proudly attempting to revive the core aspects of those movements - so we should be calling these people neo-fascists (or, more loosely, fascists) even if conditions and tactics have changed significantly.
Fascism, even before WWII, was a nebulous term, even among themselves, and for various reasons it always will be, but some scholars have made useful characterisations, a notable one being Umberto Eco’s “Ur-Fascism” listing general properties of fascism. And as we see neoliberalism, which is what’s happening today and has been happening for decades, falling further and further into crisis, we’ve seen a consistent rise of movements resembling fascism, which co-mingle with self-proclaimed fascists. Look at One Nation and their links to the upper owning class (notably Gina Rinehart) and their heavy presence in the speaking list of the neo-Nazi “March for Australia” rallies. Whether or not we wish to nitpick about what exact moment such things become ‘fascism’, it’s perfectly valid to look at this trend, its many shared characteristics, and say yes, fascism is on our doorstep.
What about, say, the present USA, do you think is important enough of a difference that we shouldn’t group it together with early 1930s fascist movements?
It doesn’t have to be exactly the same. The underlying elements repeat a pattern and manifest like a ‘variation on a theme’ whether with or without speed of information. I found this document that lists the elements of fascism. You may note that many of them are active today : https://www.keene.edu/academics/cchgs/resources/presentation-materials/characteristics-and-appeal-of-fascism/download/
Keeping in mind that average IQ start decreasing first time in history. It is not surprising that Nazi ideas are getting hold.
