The Subversive Genius of QT’s Inglourious Basterds
November 24, 2009
I saw Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds for a second time recently and I feel I’m up to tackling its genius.
In the closing shot of Basterds, Tarantino places the following dialogue into Brad Pitt’s mouth to close out the film, “This might just be my masterpiece?”. Cue Kubrick style classical music. I think QT is self referencing what he thinks of his own work. So, is Inglorious Basterds a masterpiece? I would say, “Yes”, but for reasons a lot more subversive than have been quoted in most film journalism I have read on the film.
First of all the film is pro fascist. What? I hear you cry? It features a gang of Jews Killing Nazi’s… how is this pro fascist? The Jewish Death squad, what do they do? Do they murder and torture German soldiers ruthlessly? What did the Einstazgruppen do? They murdered and brought terror to all Eastern Europe? Are not the Basterds tactics merely a mirror image of Nazi ones? Is not Tarantino secretly endorsing fascist violence, as he has done throughout his career by the way, in this film? I would say so. It is a major theme of Basterds that I suggest has modern political ramifications when you be apply it to forgive and excuse Bush/Cheney tactics in the recent Iraqi war, for example. Or say Israeli violence against the Palestinians. Indeed, the whole Jewish death squad even outstrips Munich as a pro Israeli violence statement, another subversion perhaps?
Second, the film references favorably Nazi cinema. Constantly throughout Basterds Nazi cinema, the last great taboo of any cinephile, is constantly spoken of admiringly. Indeed, the Minister of Nazi Cinema Goebbels is a character in the film, espousing the merits of his Government’s national cinema, and the genius of filmmakers like Riefenstahl, Pabst and many others. Another line of dialogue has Nazi cinema compared to Jewish Hollywood cinema and no lesser person than Winston Churchill asks, “How is he doing (Goebbels)?”. To a response of, “Pretty damn good, Sir”. Indeed, the film features a fictional Nazi movie that has a German Audie Murphy type character in it who slaughters the allies ruthlessly, and even gets Hitler all teary eyed with patriotism. Its parallel’s to 80’s Hollywood anti Commie war movies is obvious. Nazi cinema is praised as a new original cinematic opening that the film, and Tarantino, admires. This mix of the fascist aesthetics and cinema informs Tarantino’s whole oeuvre when you think about it.
Thirdly, its a film that advocates and embraces Historical Revisionism. QT completely rewrites the script for WW2 and has the great hero who ends the war being none other than a genocidal Nazi “Jew Hunter” named Colonel Hans Landa. Yes, its a Nazi who ends WW2! If you can get anymore subversive than that in the cinema recently I’ll be bar mitzvahed in my birthday suit singing the “Horst Wessel” song!! Hans Landa is the archetypal Nazi polymath and villain taken to a new level. He is meticulous, polite, deadly… but very well spoken, in at least four languages. Landa is the main character of the film in many senses, and the performance Christoph Waltz has been rightly praised, awarded and lauded. A genocidal Nazi ending World War 2, I say it again, so its full resonance can stay with you. His deal with the Allies is a master stroke from QT. This making an sort of anti hero out of a Butcher of Lyon/Klaus Barbie type character is the forth and major subversive dimension of Basterds. Sure, Waltz is a self serving nihilist and killer. But he is humanized, intelligent, charming… and even a likable rogue. And, he does end WW2 in a marvelously perverse historical revisionism, that would have even David Irving spinning in his chair.
The cast is a fifth subversion. Waltz is simply superb as mentioned. Brad Pitt is cast as a psychotic and blood lusting part Indian who collects Nazi scalps, no less. Melanie Laurent is ice cold as the avenging Jewess. Diane Kruger is foot fetish sexy as the Nazi actress spy. Sylveester Groth and Martin Wuttke are fun as the tag team of Goebbels and Hitler. Michael Fassbender is great and tres cool as a brit spy in over his head. Eli Roth is a weird choice, but also an appropriate one, given his Jewishness and penchant for extreme violence. Other cameos and bit players all pull their weight in this broad canvas fever dream QT has laid out for us.
Inglorious Basterds subverts the defining historical events of the 20th century and reinvisages them as an ode of fascist violence and struggle for power. Goebbels and The Fuhrer himself, after getting over a few issue like losing the war and being killed in a cinema, would have loved it!
Hack is for hacks
November 18, 2009
The Triple J news and current affairs program Hack with Kate O’Toole totally gives me the shits.
Its Auntie’s (the ABC) youth propaganda half hour. The show is constantly presenting ‘youth’ perspectives on ‘hot spot’ issues like: homeless youth, leaving School early, schoolies, internet censorship, crime and punishment, drugs, indigenous rights, etc, etc. And on and on it goes. All presented with same kind of vapid moral viewpoint and sickening condescension.
For example a program a while back on leaving school early, starts with some moron going, “Yeah its fun to leave school early, you can do what you want mate”. Cut expert saying well it might seem like fun experts say people who leave school early end up losers. Cut to intelligent non school leaver saying they won’t leave school. Cut back to moron saying how he is broke and can’t get a job. Moral: Don’t leave school.
Yesterday I posted this on Facebook:
…I hate that show Hack on Triple J with a passion. Every ‘hot spot’ teen and young adult issue Auntie gets to have ‘a reasonable discussion’ on ( i.e Government propaganda), like leaving school early, etc., any PC issue you can think of really. Todays topic: warning mong proles to have kids before their biological clock expires. Hack, I’d like to do some hacking in JJJ’s programming…
Some responses:
Virginia Tachos: i was listening in on this drivel..this line particularly stunned me ” Have a child as early as you can with your boyfriend/partner” or engage in egg freezing …so many “great” options…drive time drivel by Triple J…triple jjj is not edgy , it’s packaged that way ..people who have an ounce of integrity will decipher this and today’s program was plainly offensive to anyone’s intelligence
Trevor Howis: Who’s running JJJ now? Have they cloned Goebbels?
David Jackson: Agreed. It’s a pathetic program with a boring as fuck host (like everything else on JJJ). It reminds me of the 7pm Report or whatever it’s called. Watered down news and issues with Rove-esque graphics and Garage band sounding loops. Current Affair for the new generation.
I then posted this today:
So I listened again today to Hack again (…why, oh, why?)…this time whinging about equal amounts of women in high powered board jobs, and serious talk of implementing quotas. Then New Moon, is it bad for teenage girls as it teaches masochism and violence in relationships. Question from moron host O’Toole: “This sounds serious, should we be closing cinem…as tomorrow?”. OMG!… its Auntie’s equivalent of a lefty student Rush Limbaugh show…Someone please do something to stop this shit house show!
I wait another flood of hate against this moronic news half hour. It is as bad as, if not worse than A Current Affair and Today Tonight, in its poisonous propagation of lame Left wing ideology and status quo thinking…
I hate it so much I am tempted to found a radio, or even TV show, along Transcendental Fascist lines of argument and philosophical discussion to combat its bullshit. More on this later perhaps…
The Misogyny of Lars Von Trier’s AntiChrist
August 5, 2009
Just saw Von Trier’s AntiChrist, probably the greatest film about Misogyny ever made. The women (She) deforms and allows her own kid to fall from an apartment window, then cuts off her own clit after torturing her husband, when he finds out the truth about her psychotic ways. Don’t let film critic wankers over intellectualize this movie, the truth of AntiChrist is staring you right in the face. Von Trier is a deeply subversive reactionary…
Some of the fun chat from my facebook page:
Antichrist logo with the symbol for woman:
District 9’s alien xenophobia
June 18, 2009
New film from Peter Jackson (Producing) and some South African guy called Neil Blomkamp. Looks to be a rather tasty motion picture parable about xenophobia, only the immigrants are aliens. Cool. Very Cool.
IKEA fascism
June 6, 2009
…I’m was a bit of a handy man today…I assembled a new book shelf from IKEA to hold some more books that are piling up…and I remembered the IKEA founder was a fascist, so I looked it all up on the net…
Interesting tidbit: Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA founder, was a former Swedish fascist sympathizer, party member of the pro-Nazi New Swedish Movement (Nysvenska Rörelsen) and corresponded with its leader Per Engdahl enthusiastically. He writes about his political committment in the 40’s in his autobiography “Leading By Design: The IKEA Story”. Naughty Ol’ Ingvar’s fascist leanings show in the ordered structure of an IKEA store, and its futurist/modernist ‘designer furniture for all’ weltanschauung, they have also cornered the market in a blitzkrieg of Swedish ingenuity. Ingvar is a transcendental fascist too, as he has stores in Israel and the Middle East raking in the $ for his special cause. Here’s a fun article on IKEA and fascism here and a wiki on Ingvar here. He is one of the world’s richest men, in fact, maybe the richest…. The totalitarian aspects and nature of IKEA was noticed and commented on in Fight Club, both the book and the film. I like IKEA, all things considered. Though you need to only use its furniture only for your basics at home and use Indy designers for the rest of the house, to give it a more personal flavour. Oh and I dig the Swedish names of IKEA products, too…’flark’ you all!
Here’s a pic of Ingy baby!
Michael Moynihan’s I Love a Parade T Shirt
June 3, 2009
I got a T Shirt in LA off Brian M Clark with the following design on it (see below) and wore it around the US, and at The Opening Night of the St Kilda Film Festival, 2009. I think its very funny…
If you’d like your own, you can order it here.
It was designed by Mr. Michael Moynihan Esq, former Boyd Rice collaborator, the force behind band Blood Axis, international man of mystery and all round interesting cultural figure. I have been reading his superb European Culture journal TYR, so more on him here later….
Order a T Shirt and remember I Love a Parade.
Clare Werbeloff, aka The chk, chk, Boom girl made some hilarious remarks about wogs, who committed a shooting in Kings Cross recently. Already the PC police are giving her a public relations spanking for her comments…
I don’t know about you…but I like her. She’s hot and sticks it to the ‘Wogs’. Some of their clan are often intolerable on Friday and Saturday nights in Australian Inner Cities, lets be honest. I’m am so sick of hearing that moronic accent, “What mate, me and my bros, mate”…fuck off, learn to speak the King’s English. Good on you Clare, even if you made it up, you touched a nerve. The success of this comment and clip on You Tube is that people are sick of that accent she does, and the violence of people who use it. We have all heard that accent and it gets our backs up, right? We are glad to see it ruthlessly sent up in a non PC way. Death to P.C’ness!
Of course, I don’t mean to put scorn on the cultured and hard working Greeks, Italians, Lebanese, etc., communities here in OZ . I just mean those loud mouth ignorant yahoo’s that often pollute our streets on weekends speaking like morons, bashing people and sometimes killing… lets not forget this was another example of a rampant ethnic youth violence on our streets…
She’s probably this years Corey Worthington is all. Corey I interpreted, last year, as a youthful rebellion against later day Capitalism’s entropy…(chortle), so, yes I read to much into these issues. But a sexy gal making vaguely racist comments, that’s funny and un-pc in my opinion. Wog, anyway, is hardly a racist word here…its been openly used and owned by the community…so, thoughts?
What do you all think? Does Clare Werberloff need a spanking over Nick Giannopoulos knee about her naughty comments? I think we should all be for it… whether we support her or not! As I said, she’s sort of cute….
Here is what she said…
““There were these two wogs fighting. The fatter wog said to the skinnier wog: ‘Oi bro, you slept with my cousin.’ And the other one said: ‘Nah man, I didn’t for shit, eh’, and the other one goes: ‘I will call on my fully sick boys, eh.’ And then pulled out a gun and went ‘chk-chk-boom’.” – Claire Werbeloff
Here is the ACA interview…fun,fun…Boom!
Fischerspooner and Fascism
May 28, 2009
I think this is the official video for a Fischerspponer song, “Happy”. It makes a link between electro, industrial and dance music being inherehtly fascist. The thought has more than occurred to me over the years. Slave to the Rythm, the Domination of the beat, the crash of the anvil at the night club school, etc.
Here is quote from whoever posted the “Happy” clip on You Tube:
“Electronic-Disco rhythm, as a regular repetition, is the purest, the most radical form of the militantly organised rhythmicity of technicist production, and as such the most appropriate means of media manipulation. As an archetypal structural basis of the collective unconscious in a worker mass, it stimulates automatic mechanisms and shapes industrialisation of consciousness, which is necessary in the logic of massive, totalitarian production…”
I agree… and say dance, dance, dance…to the fascist groove thang…
Enjoy the Clip! The new Fischerspooner CD “Entertainment” is out and great by the way. I picked it up in Salt Lake City and bopped all around Mormon town vibing on its cool electro veneer while looking at the legacy of Jospeh Smith and Brigham Young. ‘Infidels of the world Unite’… and remember ‘living well is the best revenge’…
Y Fascism
May 25, 2009
People reading this blog might wonder why all the talk of Fascism or a Transcendental Fascism? Back from the USA and refreshed it seems I owe a brief explanation…
I clearly see the question of Fascism or fascism (big F or little, I use them both at random, as I write quick and in a flurry, and often don’t pay attention to such details, though big F should be historical Fascism, both past, present and future, and small f for the generic category or concept) as being one of the main intellectual issues of the 21st century. As Michael Haneke’s fascist parable The White Ribbon wins the Palme D’Or and Tarantino’s fascist ode Inglorious Basterds wins Best actor with the character of the Nazi Jew Hunter played by Cristoph Wirth… what better time to hold forth on THE political philosophy of the 21st century? It seems it was the fascist Cannes, so the question arises, as Susan Sontag once observed… what is so fascinating about F/fascism?
Firstly, I’d say Fascism is to a certain extent a utopian and romantic political philosophy… but in a vastly different respect to Capitalism or Socialism/ Communism in many ways. Facism tells it like it is rather than how we’d like it to be. One of the great interesting characteristics about fascism is that it perfectly reflects nature and the structure and Being of the Universe. Boyd Rice’s famous essay “Nature’s Eternal Fascism” is a good textual example to support this thesis. Indeed, this nature/fascism topic seems to be the subject matter of the new Lars Von Trier film AntiChrist (another Cannes winner)…
A lot of pomo wankers will insist on the importance of irony, undecidability and deconstruction in an interpretation of a work of art, but as we all know those tools are a poor man’s hermeneutic… and that true art is like a lightning bolt from Being itself. It is not ironic, it is simply what it ‘is’. Bare and pure in its nakedness. It is purely ontological and given. A gift.
But is this how fascism is treated and discussed in our society? No. Consider the way fascism as topic is treated in today’s discourse. This ought to be a perfect guide to its hidden power, relevance and true significance to humanities future. Essentially, fascism, as an open political discussion point is completely forbidden. If fascists are portrayed or discussed in the media, it is generally in terms of documentaries about bottom of the barrel Neo Nazi’s, with a grade two education, espousing some crude racism or in Hollywood fiction crazed Nazi’s killing everyone on screen for kicks. This is 90% of the image of fascism that capitalism’s media machine would like you to receive. Of course it is very far from the truth of the matter…
But many artists some mentioned above (…and below) have taken fascism and understood it in its deepest most intellectual sense as a core issue for humanity, one that they either support subversively, or engage with intellectually with caution, or as a caveat.
One of the things that is often annoying about the portrayal of fascism in the media is, as mentioned above, its portrayal of uneducated Neo-nazi’s and also the consistent and on going portrayal of Nazi’s on screen as pathologically insane maniacs… and that they are somehow not part of Western Civilisation, and her History. Again, nothing could be further from the truth…
Nazism is in many senses the most extreme, far reaching and intense manifestation and representation of Western Civilisation ever to be made factical. Some historians even equate fascism and modernism together (see Roger Griffin’s recent work). Which, by the way, I believe, and is why I bought my “Modernist” T shirt recently in LA. I love modernism and modernist artists and authors, and generally dislike and hate post modernism as an utterly repellent sophistry and completely decadent discourse; the sly supplement and ally of later day Capitalism (see Jameson). Enough with fucking Deleuze already! He was a suicidal confused buffoon with a few clever ideas and takes on Nietzsche, Von Sacher Masoch, cinema and Sade… but over all made no cohesive sense…his schizo philosophy was exactly that!
But I digress, Nazism, as mentioned, was simply a too intense and destructive form of Modernism for its own damn good! I have always felt, along with the futurists, that fascism is in many senses The Future. Many sci fi writers are in full agreement… and the fascist dystopia is Legion as sci fi motif. What excites me though, about say, footage of Nazi rallies, its architecture, or political philosophy of the era, is its vast futuristic character. A cold and logical paradigm shift in human development had taken place under Mussolini and Hitler and its full intensity proved too much for the bourgeois allies, and the monstrous ‘dread leveler’ best represented by Stalin. Of course, I have stated that Nazism is full of errors of intensity, nuance and velocity, the main being the aforementioned choice of Jew as internal enemy, when clearly Jews are a most superior people, who should be allied to the cause of Western civilisation, rather than recast as its enemies and victims. This mistaking of Jews as enemies rather than allies, I suspect and have said elsewhere, probably cost Hitler the war! As, for example, he lost Jewish intellectuals and scientists who could have steered The Reich to new strategies and Super weapons like the A bomb very early in ww2, putting an end to Western Capitalism once and for all, etc. But instead due to this mistake, Germany lost many of its brightest and finest due to a retrograde anti-semitic prejudice of some of the top Nazi’s. Things could have been very different… and should have been. But this century presents problems even more pressing and potent than the last for Western Civilisation, and its important this time the Jewish people stand with us at the bastions of Western culture, and fight hand to hand with us, in what could be the last great battle for the planetary harmony and survival…indeed recent neo-cons, and even their supplement Obama understand this…hence the undying support for Israel, which I support, by the way…
Due to this Jewish mistake, can F/fascism, or Nazism for that matter, be dismissed intellectually and out of hand as purely Evil? I think not. Like Heidegger said, where the danger is, also lies the saving power. As a hermeneutic strategy I recommend bracketing out the Jewish holocaust all together intellectually (ala Husserl’s famous phenomenological reduction), put it out of your head, after acknowledging its error of course, as a vast form of foolish collateral damage, to borrow a modern term. A Bataillean Accursed Share, an unaccountable excess of the Nazi matrix. Once you have acknowledged it, then put aside the Nazi Jewish t/error of ww2, then one can move onto the waters of fascism easily, with a clear conscience and unhindered. Like an adventurous sojourner setting forth on a calm quest on the quite sea of the eternal Now…
This of course is the essential strategy of most holocaust deniers, essentially, but one need not deny the Jewish holocaust to redeem fascism. This seems excessive and unnecessary. There are other ways forward, ‘always forward, over the dead bodies’ as Albert Speer once said, of which I suggest just one, above…
The intellectual pedigree of fascism as Giuseppi Botai described in 1924 is “exquisitely intellectual” and that it represents “a revolution of the intellectuals” and an “intellectual revolution”. Israeli historian Zev Sternhell feels the same way, in his post war histories of the intellectual back grounds of fascism. Sternhell claims fascism has a fully functional intellectual apparatus and ideology to rival that of even the Left and Marxism. This, too, I strongly concur with. And to find it out you have to really study the texts hidden away in libraries and research the topic, as its a secret history, like that of a Dan Brown conspiracy novel…
Next time you see some idiot on TV espousing a crude biological racism, think perhaps on some of the following thinkers as a riposte to this common misrepresentation:
Martin Heidegger’s ontological fascism, Nietzsche’s hierarchical nihilist immorality, Ezra Pound’s masterful cantos of mythic/structural fascism and his adhorence of usury, TS Eliot’s social critique of Western Civilisation as ‘waste land’ filled with ‘hollow men’ and his call for conservative renewal, DH Lawrence’s sexual, frenetic and animalistic ‘fascism without bullying’, F.Scott Fitzgerald’s critique of the bourgeois, and call for a new Romantic elite, Wydham Lewis’s vortex of forces and iconoclastic outsider fascist modernism, Yeats mythic nationalist poetry, geared theory of history and fascist visions, Celine’s masterful misanthropy and avant garde literary agression, Curzio Malaparte’s literary complexity and his architectual interests, Yukio Mishima’s Japanese vision of fascism with Emperor worship and a new military elitism, Knut Hamsun’s pastoral, green and proletariat fascism, the eugenic theories of Sir Francis Galton, the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer, the scientific monism and artwork of Ernst Haeckel, the focus on the purifying and fertilising power of Violence to be found in Sorel, Oswald Spengler’s Hegelian/Historical synthesis and warning of the Decline of the West, and lastly warrior poet Gabrielle D’Annunzio’s first synthesis of the fascist minimum during the taking of Fiume. I can go on, and on, like this. Further figures like Ernst Junger, Carl Jung, Luigi Pirandello, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Arno Breker, Timothy Findlay, Mario Sironi, Charles Peguy, Ernest Renan, Paul de Lagarde, Charles Darwin, Rene Guenon, Julius Evola, Vincenzo Cardarelli, Maurice Barres, Giovanni Papini, Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, Jose Antonio Primo De Rivera, Oswald Mosley, Leni Riefenstahl, Arnold Fanck, Moeller Van Den Bruck, Francis Parker Yockey, Miguel Serrano, Savitri Devi, Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, Robert Brassilach, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle, JG Ballard, Max Nordau, Otto Weininger, Michael Moynihan, Bret Easton Ellis, Alain De Benoist and even early Blanchot and Paul De Man…all testify to a fascism that is far from an unintellectual and unartistic movement. In fact Fascism is, par excellence, the product of the finest minds of the 19th and 20th centuries. This hidden intellectual pedigree of fascism, i.e. the fact that it is essentially hidden, is one of the great intellectual scandals of the last 100 years. I call these authors and artists above, ‘the Other’ canon, representing a completely different vision of humanity and society. Many books deal individually with these artists, thinkers and writers (above) engagement in or with fascism, but few join the collective dots… and outline a vision for a new Fascist International, that can be drawn from this vast resource…
Well, here at Idea Fix, we will do our bit to get you thinking and talking about F/fascism, whether you agree with it, or not. We reject the curiously censorious ‘verboten’ attitude to its discussion and believe the list of Nazi crimes is not enough to relegate the concept to the dust bins of history. Indeed, Communism’s crimes far exceed fascist ones, and yet its discussion is de riguer at Universities. Why not fascism? This state of affairs exist because the Left is, lets face it, no real threat to later day Capitalism and it acts really as just a fashion statement or hipster strategy for most students. Fascism is, of course, totally another matter…Do people really only see the media stereotype of it? …and not believe it has other possible manifestations, or potentials?
Engage, think, discuss and debate the issue/s here at Idea Fix. As these thinkers (above) demonstrate, disagreements and open discussion is as welcome in fascist/rightist circles… as it is, in any other. And while you study and reflect, remember to think and consider the full weight of what these thinkers thoughts may actually portend… What do they have to say about humanity as a whole, and its manifest destiny, on our small and imperiled planet?
I discuss this often at some personal pain, as I know F/fascism is not a popular issue with some people. But like any writer or artist of modernist era and before, I feel compelled to speak the truth as I see it. And also I find it scandalous that no one else (or very few) are cohesively assembling such thoughts and that the majority of humanity appear duped on the topic of fascism. For better or worse, I hope to make my own humble contribution to the topic and subject matter. I wish to pursue the idea that a regenerated fascism need not be Evil or destructive, and that a ‘good’ fascism could indeed exist in the future.
I hope you, mein lecteur…”hypocrite lecteur!—mon semblable,—mon frère”, will have the patience to endure the content of my thoughts, and perhaps dare to think in dangerous waters with me, for the saving power, if you so desire…”the future is that mountain”…
Vale JG Ballard…long live the Metro Centre!
April 23, 2009
JG Ballard passed away on the weekend. An amazing literary talent has left us, one whose later works were, in my humble opinion, sheer genius.
Best source for stories about his death is ballardian.com here. Its a great site run by Simon Sellers. Its a little bit of a pomo wankfest, but informative, detailed and sincere.
I wrote this post below Sellers obit, comments and tributes are welcome there:
“A genius, who saw the future. He didn’t write science fiction in his later years he wrote science fact. His prescience about a new form of fascism being the only legitimate form of resistance to later day Capitalism, in his last novels, could not be closer to the truth. Viva The Metro Centre, James! Something is coming, you won’t live to see it, JG…but many will…”
I think it says all I need to say…
Here is a visual tribute to one of Ballard’s last books, the masterful career ending Kingdom Come, with its Metro Centre, a mall that acts as a site of a people’s uprising. The mock Metro Centre website is here. I love these photos, a guy looking in a rubbish bin with a light emanating from it, a guy depressed in a shipping department with headline “Sale Now On”, other ads promoting losing it and going completely crazy, and the last chestnut, “The Wait is almost over”. This is an advertising campaign supposedly designed by and featuring character David Cruise from “Kingdom Come”, that was created to publicise said novel. Its intentions are to unsettle and unhinge people with the utter and complete emptiness of capitalism, thereby fostering some form of new fascist revolution. Indeed, that is the purpose of the book, also. Don’t believe me? Read the book… tell me if I wrong…
