2024-03-02 15:14:17
The far-right president’s speech meets the “formal” conditions of contemporary fascism. This formal issue deserves to be differentiated from the different historical contents. In the case of presidential fascism we can establish the following features:
A) Extinction of History, erasure of popular struggles, of its militants and martyrs, of transformative historical events, etc. In this way, History is presented simplified to an absolute principle, there were one hundred years of decadence that includes all of contemporary political history, a corrupt and degenerate history (especially for everything that deserved to be called national and popular) that left out the “people.” of good” and that only had a pristine point at the beginning and that now, according to the far-right, it returns with its figure.
As is known, the term “decadence” has always been a key piece in the construction of fascist discourse. In this case qualified by the denialism of the genocidal dictatorship and a deliberate use, once again, of the “infiltrator theory.”
B) To nullify and reduce history to such a simplification, it is necessary to construct an absolute and unmediated antagonism; for this, the anti-political social imaginary, which effectively exists in the social mood of the population, serves as a platform, presenting to the politicians such as a criminal association dedicated to this operation works for the libertarian for the constitution of the term with which he antagonizes: “the caste”. Since the antagonisms really constitutive of politics have been erased or reduced to a police question to pursue, including proper names, in this way, the audience seemed euphoric, feeling chosen for a new founding of the State, confirming as always, that a fascist He is a scared liberal, although the presence of determined fascists was also observed. Obviously this was accompanied by a guard of journalists excited by the great philosophical and moral depth of the presidential speech.
Having drawn the circle where financial neoliberalism and the State became equivalent, it remained to call for a founding pact with the “good guys” who would be rewarded with no other requirement than collaborationism and with a project that hands the nation over to financial capital and life. social to repression. Contemporary Fascism is the symptom that the relationship between capitalism and democracy has been decomposing for some time. This Argentine compromise of Bukelism, Austrians and Friedman, and friendship with the genocidal dictatorship, provides us with successful testimony. Is it possible that the population’s rejection of politics, which according to the extreme rightist approach, is pure corrupt caste, gave definitive power to such a destruction of sovereignty in every sense of the word? The people are not an immutable essence that is always there, as the romantic tradition thought; on the contrary, it is a field of political experiences, which reinvents itself in the circumstances and always demands new articulations. Can the Argentine people be so tired and sad? and fragmented, to give in his political desire to the self-destructive drive?
Peronism and the left alluded to in the presidential speech, evidently, will surely have to face this situation with a new political imagination that allows the emergence and encounter with the people to be invented.
Where extortion wants to prevail, there is the enormous challenge of overcoming the fragmentation of society with a oriented and salvific popular leadership. “Only the people can save the people”.