I think that was always latent and present within neo liberalism, but has now become its sort of governing ideology. The far right respondse to this with stories that at once speak to this anxiety, but also displace this anxiic anxiety on to other objects. And what they do in doing so is to offer a kind of anti systemic politics for people who don’t really think the system could change. You know, it few if you kind of naturalize the idea that inequality will continue to rise,. nothing will be done about climate change... Resources will become scarcer, competition will become more cut throat. So what do you do? What the fareright in stening people is
How neoliberal conditions create popular constituencies, ideologies, and subjectivities among poor and working-class people for a violent, mean, and repressive neoliberalism—and how those reactionary politics from below converge with those generated from above. Political theorist Rodrigo Nunes analyzes Bolsonarismo (the ideology and politics surrounding far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro) and far-right politics everywhere.
Read Rodrigo's essays:
radicalphilosophy.com/article/of-what-is-bolsonaro-the-name
publicbooks.org/are-we-in-denial-about-denial
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