Some houses on the outskirts of Paris this week appeared marked with Stars of David. The neatness with which they were printed on the facades distances the idea of impulse and suggests a kind of perverse installation, as perverse as this part of the world to which we are no strangers quickly became.
Nazi iconography began to circulate globally, assimilated with positive attributes, when NATO decided to play its expansive chess using Ukraine. Eagles, snakes, shaved heads, Goebbelian typography. An entire visual semantic field that until then caused massive rejection began to return, but in an inverted scene.
Ukraine at the time was governed by a comedian who acted much like he acts as a president. In fact, his political party is named after his series, Servant of the People. Zelensky’s world tour, the notes to the Ucronazi commandos, the legitimization not only Ukrainian but Ottonian of Stephen Banderas, the sash clothes, the weapons and the Nazi tattoos.
Zelensky and his wife posing under Annie Leiwovicz for Vogue, aestheticizing war. The semantic field changed: those tattoos and symbols were no longer associated with the concentration camps of the Holocaust, nor with the piles of emaciated corpses in the Nazi mass graves, but with the anti-communist struggle. They were presented as victims, or as “freedom fighters against the Russian invasion.”
When we think about how this rampage of gangsters and fascists so close to the political power that they claim to detest is possible in Argentina, when we see them installed in the media, whose journalists accommodate absolutely everything and have lost all rational narrative, we must open the focus. . Everything that I described above, and that I do not usually see associated in the analyzes that circulate, seems interesting to me. Because the project of the far-right incubators is part of the push for the new world order, and that project includes reviving the totalitarianisms of the 20th century but in an unprecedented climax of damage. They are willing to go to war against all species. Today, for them, Hitler was a guy with courage who “exterminated what had to be exterminated.” (“He lowered inflation,” say uninhibited economists).
It is paradoxical, because these are times of paradoxes, but part of the same project of world order is Israel. And it is atrocious, but in Gaza the logic of hatred and extermination of all the extreme right is applied in an unbearably literal way. An abominable terrorist massacre like that of Hamas is answered with an even larger massacre, carried out not by a terrorist group but by a State. But again: the dialectic of hatred taken to its extreme degree and now with children as the obvious target. The spiral of cruelty is ascending.
The United States does not want to lose its hegemony in this region either, as Commander Richardson has already advanced a few times. That means, in the context of these elections, appropriating our natural resources.
The West, in its drowning hand, does not remember. The West erases and rewrites history to generate a present conditioned by its own narrative. The Nazis are the ones fighting for freedom, not the Russians, who defeated the Nazis. The Russians are communists and invaders, so Tchaikovsky’s works are not included in the tennis championships nor are Tchaikovsky’s works programmed in Europe. Russia is no longer communist, but that doesn’t matter to anyone. What will this moral and emotional imbalance in the West have to do with the flourishing of deranged people who machine-gun schoolchildren or run for president?
The part of the world we live in is as disputed as Africa or the Middle East. Global institutions like the UN or the OAS are falling apart. This Trumpist madness even has the ingredient of the link with porn and drug trafficking. Driving is like vultures. Its mass of voters is going through this enormous economic crisis that wars continue to pay for, with extreme vulnerability. At the foundations of the far-right project is the culture of the servant, who the only freedom he has is to hate another objectified person that he intends to exterminate.
Anarcho-capitalism needs totalitarianism, not democracy. It is idiotic to continue asking if Macri or Milei are democratic. The paradox is that madmen who would surely put an end to voting obtain that power from the ballot box. And if they can do it, it is because we live immersed in a device of permanent, intermittent and repetitive messages that take advantage of the crisis to fuel hatred. Hitler today is much closer to the common sense of many people, he is more cross-dressed, more made-up. He is part of an evil political toy whose objective is a definitive accumulation of wealth, and to achieve this he is willing to “make it explode.”
