Joshua Clover, författare till boken Riot Strike Riot och aktivist i Oakland, föreläser om situationen i USA under Donald Trumps styre. Vad säger Trump om den politiska situationen i USA och väst? Vilka motsättningar och politiska konflikter vittnar hans valseger om? Och hur skall man angripa den våg av högerpopulism som skakar om många länder runtom i världen utan att hamna i antifascismens vanliga återvändsgränder?
Joshua Clover föreläser på engelska och kommer att utgå ifrån det amerikanska teorikollektivet Research and Destroys text "The Landing: Fascism without fascists" som gärna läses inför föredraget: http://www.versobooks.com/<wbr>blogs/<wbr>3111-the-landing-fascists-w<wbr>ithout-fascism
"Trump is the truth of the long crisis, of the recent and not-so-recent past. But he may also be the truth of class society’s near and not-so-near future, if it is to have any. It is possible that Trump represents an exploratory mission by the global ruling class, surveying the landscape of senescent capitalism and determining the precise brutalities appropriate to it.
Furthermore, he takes over where the emancipatory movements launching from 2008 tried themselves to bring some frail new thing into the world tried to elaborate modes of struggle after the death of the worker’s movement — he takes up where they were were stymied, knocked off course, rendered harmless. From Nigel Farage to Beppe Grillo, the global right-populist class of 2016 is an injured reaction to these emancipatory movements but also an attempt to racialize and nationalize their promises: a cop-loving riposte to the ontological insult of Black Lives Matter, for example, but also an attempt to hijack the populism of Tahrir and Syntagma and Occupy. After SYRIZA and Bernie and Podemos have had their chance to prop up the corpse of these movements, the field is open for right populism, for white populism.
In this regard, Trump is monstrous precisely because he is the mirror image of the weakness of these movements, the success of their failure. He lost the popular vote by the largest margin ever; he comes in with the lowest approval rating since such polls began; a pulsating cloud of lawsuits and scandals surrounds him. And yet he lays claim, potentially, to the greatest consolidation of right-wing power since the 1920s, surrounding himself with generals and CEOs and signaling at every turn that his coalition of spraytan, diet pills, and Viagra can be the social strength that neo-Nazi nerds and failed school shooters so desire."
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