Fighting For Their Own Servitude | Red May 2021

From Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise to Wilhelm Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism to Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus, one of the most fundamental and most disturbing questions of politics has been: why do people fight for their servitude as if it were their salvation? The strange thing isn't that some people steal or occasionally go on strike, but that hungry people don't always steal, and workers aren't always on strike. This question has always had to address the existence of something like the "far right": from monarchist tyranny to fascism to "democratic" authoritarianism. Today as the left debates the utility of the word "fascism," the staying power of Trumpism, the meaning of right-wing populism, join us for an open-ended discussion on what it means for people to fight for their own servitude.

Jason Read, Robyn Marasco, Warren Montag, Asad Haider

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