“When We Lose The Ability To Be Shocked, Fascism Has Already Arrived”

This past May, Saladdin Ahmed published his article “When We Lose the Ability to Be Shocked, Fascism Has Already Arrived” at the Institute for Social Ecology.

In his piece, Ahmed notes: “Whether democratic or despotic, states draw their legitimacy from their claim to the general will of the public. While that questionable legitimacy fluctuates immensely in different circumstances and contexts, any regressive attempt to replace the power of “the sovereign” with the rule of a particular sectarian or racist group could translate into a Hobbesian nightmare of a “war of all of against all.” Today, volkisch movements in several countries are gradually eating away all that could be considered the public foundation of the state. The decline of the bourgeois state will be disastrous in such a regressive scenario.”

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