Senfascismens æstetisering af (den hvide) arbejderklasse

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Abstract

Late Fascism’s Aestheticization of the (White) Working Class: Notes for a Communist Art Theory

The article presents a double take on what I propose to call late fascism in order to distinguish between the inter-war fascist  movements and contemporary fascist parties and politicians. Firstly, I follow Walter Benjamin’s analysis of fascism as a question of aestheticization. Fascism is just as much a question of culture and ideology as a question of politics, and we need to map the specific fascist culture that contemporary fascist politicians produce. Secondly, I connect this analysis of fascist culture to an analysis of the specific class composition of late fascism, arguing that late fascism operates through a process of reverse victimization where a privileged white working class comes to see itself as threatened.