Ideology of unbridled desire : HedoFascism (in Dutch) https://archive.is/2025.05.21-125043/https://www.groene.nl/artikel/ideologie-van-het-ongebreidelde-verlangen
@becha "Als het ging om de karakterisering van radicaal-rechtse bewegingen, partijen en hun leiders was het f-woord lange tijd uit den boze, althans in serieuze politieke beschouwingen."
Which rather calls into doubt the actual usefulness and accuracy of that "serious political analysis", given that it completely failed to recognize the rise of fascism...
@Heidentweet @becha Yeah. They're not wrong that it's important to understand why fascism appeals, but they also don't exactly acknowledge that this frustration of people with being asked to introspect (which is presented here as some innate annoyance) very much originates from that same fascist rhetoric of "you should not let anyone tell you you're wrong about anything".
@Heidentweet @becha Like, there was a time when asking someone to think about their position in society was a matter of "normen en waarden", and completely socially accepted. That time approximately ended when fascists started telling people that it's unreasonable to do this.
@joepie91 @becha Warning about the rise of fascism was, of course "het elkaar moreel de maat nemen, de behoefte aan zuiverheid, de oproep om te ‘consuminderen’, de wedloop in het erkennen van de eigen privileges;" ...