Pier Paulo Pasolini
"No Fascist centralism ever achieved what the centralism of consumer civilization has achieved"- Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Pier Paolo Pasolini argued that consumer capitalism—or consumerism—acts as a "completed fascism" because it successfully achieves total cultural homogenization and social control that historical, political fascism could only dream of. [1, 2]Why Consumerism is "Completed Fascism"
- Totalizing vs. Totalitarian: Pasolini noted that classical 20th-century fascism was "totalitarian" in its political ambitions, but it was "not totalizing". It tried to control public life and institutions, but it left the underlying peasant, working-class, and regional subcultures of Italy largely intact.
- The Power of Acculturation: Post-war consumer capitalism and mass media (like television) penetrated the private lives, inner thoughts, language, and desires of ordinary Italians. It reshaped the national character in ways Mussolini's dictatorship never managed to do.
- Commoditing the Body: Consumerism reduces human bodies, relationships, and personalities to interchangeable commodities. Pasolini saw a sinister link between the mechanistic commodification of human life under consumerism and the atrocities of Nazism.
The Illusion of Freedom
- Conformity Disguised as Choice: In a consumer society, political and personal freedom is reduced to a superficial choice between brand names and commodities.
- The Rise of the "Little Hitler": Pasolini argued that individualized consumerism turns everyone into an aggressive competitor ("little power seekers" or "little Hitlers") willing to crush others for social mobility and material comfort.
- Loss of True Opposition: Because consumerism co-opts all desires and standardizes human behavior, it neutralizes authentic revolutionary or working-class resistance, leaving society trapped in a uniform, inescapable system.
Development is Not Progress - It's Capitalist Commodification
Edward Bernays' Psychological Consumerism Triumphant
Oh look Mommy ! The Democratic Nazi fascist are calling the Republicans Nazi Fascists.
ReplyDeleteI’m not certain, but dont think the current Democratic Party is a fascist regime . I think thru history there has always been a struggle in the US between good and evil.
The US has led the world on ‘Progressive” enlightded policies. But there is also a darker side of the US and it is this Much More sinister side that holds sway at the moment.
You can trace it back to independence when the brits offeree freedom to tha slaves to revolt against their freedom loving overrlords.
As the country grew the Democrats grew more twards the left and the fascists took hold in the confederacy which was a nai regime.
After the war fascism held sway thru the evil Jm Crow laws.
It ran thru this century where Nazi voices were popular. Check out Father Coughlin and the German bund who were all in for Hitler.
Macarthy was a Nazi I'm sure you could name many others, except now that the “New Democratic Socialisrs took over.
Now they are back in the form of Hakeem Jeffries, Alexandria Ocasio -Cortezand, and Cory Booker.
Its not terminal and at this stage America can still be saved. But it explains why the whole world no longer looks to the US for leadership. Not since the Muslims took over.
Consumerism is completed fascism - Pier Paolo Pasolini
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