Obama as a sort-of Fascist

Posted on March 15, 2008

A follow-up to my earlier posts (e.g. here) about the Fascist elements in Obama’s appeal

Fascism was the very popular combination of extreme nationalism with extreme socialism — so Obama is clearly not a Fascist in any precise sense. So far from being a nationalist, he is not even a patriot.

But history never repeats itself exactly. The non-patriotic (international) socialists of the past were the Communists but they never had mass appeal. As Mao said, their power grew out of the barrel of a gun.

But Communism is now just about dead outside the Humanities Departments of Western universities so in Obama we may be seeing a new synthesis: A popular State tyranny like the Fascist one that does not rely on nationalism for its appeal. It is doubtful that such a tyranny would be so crass as to put out images like the satirical ones below but the reality behind the images might well evolve in the direction that the images suggest.

Images via Vanderleun

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One Response to “Obama as a sort-of Fascist”

brian on March 15th, 2008 6:14 pm

The original [top] is not actually satirical (which makes it worse). They are made by the guy who makes those ‘OBEY’ posters, who is an Obama supporter. He made the ‘Change’ poster as quasi-official campagin swag.

http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/blather_spew/obama_change_an.php