coffin_dodger » Mon Feb 03, 2014 11:21 pm wrote:I'm starting to think we've missed the boat. It worries me that generally, we seem to spend a lot of time and effort pointing out and debating what's no good, what's crap and what's scary for people like us (i.e. Fascism), but less time and little effort in promoting better alternatives/something different. We've been hanging on to a tentative order of sorts since 2007/8 and nothing *that* convincing as an alternative has been forthcoming that has captured the popular imagination. Fascism strikes me as a 'fall-back position' for frightened, confused people and thankfully we're not there yet. But it only takes one country to start 'tooling up', for it's equally frightened neighbours to think hard about their own security - and the type of government they want if it's going to come to a fight. And those Fascists do like to fight.
I think one of the reasons that people tend to push their (questionable) 'anti-fascism' efforts, and also invent new and more convoluted forms of 'fascism' (like AD did in this thread), is that they are basically not creative enough to push better alternatives.
It is much easier to be against something (that's not actually present) than to provide an alternative, and to inflate that something to into something bigger, (Al Qaeda for instance).
The present forms of white nationalist/supremacist activity are more basic and straightforward than AD makes out (in Britain at least), and are best tackled on that level. He's inventing boogeymen.