A-Infos (en) Italy, Sicilia Libertaria #464 - THE NEW CAESARS (Gaio Giulio) (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The neo-fascist capitalism of Trump and Meloni ---- Globalization, 
understood as the universal extension of US business models and the 
transnational liberalization of production chains, accompanied by trade 
agreements that stimulated the movement of goods (WTO), ended with the 
2008 global crisis. This deglobalization was highlighted in 2016 by the 
rise of anti-EU neoconservatism, Brexit, and the first election of The 
Donald, both of which promoted systemic changes to constitutional 
democracies. Today, fears of a rift between economic liberalism and 
political democracy, between personal freedom and political power, 
suggest a new totalitarianism.
A market economy has emerged, diversified by geopolitical area and 
nation. Trump's second presidency has promoted this with the creation, 
under the EU's control, of trade blocs, tariff increases, limitations on 
technology exports, import bans, and financial sanctions: coercion 
becomes an economic and political tool that defines the balance of power 
and domination over both vassal and adversarial national economies, as 
they suffer the expropriation of wealth to subsidize domestic producers 
who benefit from the abolition of welfare, tax cuts, deregulation and 
privatization, and the unrestrained exploitation of natural resources.
International mercantilism and national liberalism require the state to 
guarantee control of the workforce and popular adherence to a voluntary 
servitude of hierarchy: the achieved de-statization of the economy is 
accompanied by the authoritarian state of a punitive society, 
perpetually at war with external enemies (competing economies and 
markets, for colonial access to the planet's resources, migration) and 
internal enemies (the invisible, the refractory, the "different"); 
choices justified by the defense of sovereignty and identity in a West 
presented as under attack; a new regime of endless war that relies on 
the ideological persuasion of security terrorism where everyone 
subjectively perceives their economic (loss of income) and social (the 
current thugs, border invaders) security as being at risk, and 
experiences the resulting repression that abolishes the law as natural; 
A global state of emergency where Freedom, no longer a universal 
principle harbinger of Equality, is now an ideological and selfish 
weapon evoking a supposedly lost primacy and power, against every 
"minority" and "enemy at the gates." It would therefore be up to 
policies of criminalization and rearmament to address the structural 
weaknesses of the economy and social unrest. This is the 
rhetorical-pathetic narrative of a hyper-reality propagated by the 
regime media, made up of pseudo-emotional truths that consolidate new 
identities through exclusion. Both Trump and Meloni stand out for their 
persecution of investigative journalism and the alignment they demand 
from the media. In the decision-making, executive state, it is the 
autocrat in command who unilaterally promotes policies and 
interventions, thanks to the ability to undermine the parliamentarianism 
and representativeness of bourgeois democracy through the instruments of 
democracy itself, for example, with decree laws (Meloni) or presidential 
decrees and orders (Trump). Authority is concentrated in a single 
person, the synthesis and pinnacle of the state, guarantor of the unity 
of the people and capable of guiding them along the right path of 
Western values. The rule of law, the product of the system of 
representation of social bodies and the pressure of class struggles, 
where authority was not delegated to individuals but to norms, is 
abolished. But capitalism itself no longer needs rules since it has 
become the sole form of human relations: "making the USA and the West 
great again" is the neo-imperialist rhetoric of Trump and those nations 
under American rule, united by the distinctive characteristics of 
selfishness, cruelty, and repression, declared enemies of equality, 
supporters of the superiority of the "white race" and its religion.

In the current phase of economic stagnation in European countries and 
the United States, it should be remembered that Trump's predatory 
policies toward both allies and subjects as well as third countries 
(tariffs and agreements on rare earths, maritime and Arctic 
geo-exploration, energy and military supply agreements) reflect a new 
period of primitive accumulation. Once new economic and political power 
relations based on force have been established-thus who commands and who 
obeys-trade treaties and legal and institutional bodies can be rewritten 
based on the newly created New Order, channeling the policies of 
subservient states. "Japan, Korea, the Emirates, and above all Europe 
have committed to investing in accordance with the President's wishes"; 
"It's an Investment Fund managed by the President, an American 
Investment Fund for a new industrialization, but with other people's 
money": this is how Scott Bessent (US Secretary of State of the 
Treasury) stated without any hesitation in an interview with Fox News. 
It is clear that the greatest burden will fall on the European 
proletariat, stripped of welfare and destined for general impoverishment 
with a shrinking civilian economy, while the war effort does not lead to 
employment growth or income but only benefits shareholders and 
investors. For example. In Italy, Meloni, with her team and the silent 
consent of the so-called progressives and leftists, in two and a half 
years of autarchic government has approved 40 billion in new military 
spending to be added to the ordinary budget at a rate of one spending 
resolution every 20 days (an absolute record since 1948) while in the 
Marche region, the jewel in the fascist crown, 9.7% of the population 
has given up medical care because of poverty, care to which access is in 
any case problematic due to the constant cuts in costs. funds and 
personnel, for inadequate facilities and those never completed. At the 
same time, amid the Palestinian genocide, the main index of the Tel Aviv 
Stock Exchange recorded a 200% increase, representing an international 
influx of capital to support the highly profitable economy of first 
occupation and then extermination of a people.

This accumulation also benefits from the ability to produce and 
reproduce conflicts, since war has a highly profitable economy as well 
as being a multipurpose tool: acquisition of new resources, markets, 
geopolitical influence, human capital, internal social control of the 
workforce, etc. This predation does not require the debt economy or 
financialization. And every competitor becomes an enemy. In reality, 
capitalism merely deploys the violence inherent in its mode of social 
production, using war and imperialism when an economic cycle is winding 
down. It is no coincidence that since the 2008 crisis, in the need to 
revive the economy, the US has accelerated its Disruption of the 
previous world order by attacking its economic and trade agreements, 
international law, bilateral disarmament treaties, and nuclear programs, 
and increased military interventions around the world: a permanent 
global state of emergency. This is reflected in the internal civil war 
within the United States, similarly reproduced by Meloni, where MAGA 
Trumpism deploys the army of the nuclear and Christian family, 
patriarchy, sexism, racism, the deportation of migrants, the 
militarization of the territory and daily life, the censorship of 
culture, and the blacklisting of content, ideas, and words that are 
"other." It is a fascistization that today eschews mass collective 
rituals, mandatory rallies, and flaunted uniforms, but instead utilizes 
personalized, molecular communication and relationships with each member 
of society, leveraging digital technologies, social media, AI, and, at 
the same time, the actions of government and state apparatuses. This 
supremacist vision conceals social complexity in favor of an easily 
understood dualism. "Friend-Enemy," useful for the repression, 
discipline, and individualization of the proletariat, and for the 
destruction of all collective and mutualistic practices. Trump and 
Meloni are well aware that Power exists only in its exercise, because 
Power that is not exercised is no longer such. Welcome to the West.

"Tyrants are only great because we are on our knees." (*)

But this is a great time to stand up.

Roberto Brioschi

(*) Étienne de La Boétie, humanist, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, 1550.

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