Surely, any equitation attempt is a beginning of infection. This is not our (political) choice, it is the only way to survive. Therefore, the antifascist fundaments of modern Europe are today relevant more than ever. Here we are today 75 years after the glorious Victory Day, fighting (again) invisible enemy within. 1930s are powerful reminder: From Reichstags Fire to Kristallnacht and on, and on, and on.) (Immunisation of herd – as tirelessly agitated via media, inevitable ends up in herd loyalty: From pandemia to plundermia. Back then in mid-1990’s, Eco didn’t visualise it but he well sensed where it might but should never go: Trivialisation of our important contents will brutally hit us back. Umberto Eco – in his ur-fascism of 1995 – of course, didn’t see the entire world arrested on one pathogen, one narrative about it, one solution mandated for all, along with suppression of any debate about it.
Regrettably enough, that future of de-evolution started pouring in by 1990s – culminating with the current Covid-19 iron fist. Back in 1960s, it was him labelling as “repressive tolerance” if someone in future ever considers a dangerous and ahistorical equitation between Nazism and anything else, least with Communism. Right than – in that text – I also borrowed from yet another Frankfurter, Herbert Marcuse on the self-entrapment of Western society. I quoted West Germany’s Max Horkheimer just few months ago discussing the disastrous, cynical and absolutely unnecessary attempts towards the equation of communism with Nazism, of fascism and anti-fascism.
“He who does not wish to speak of capitalism should remain forever silent about Nazism”
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