Responding to Crypto-Nazi Bullshit: Nationalism Is Not Renewal, It Is Capitalism’s Last Refuge
The apologia for nationalism before us dresses exclusion in democratic garb. Its claims demand to be taken apart, one by one. The very word “renewal” unmasks its pedigree since it is the very diction that both Mussolini and Hitler used, never mind the present Orange Monkey Führer of MAGA-land himself. Sovereignty and Algorithms It is naïve to say sovereignty “remains the ultimate arbiter.” States exist, yes, but their operations are subordinated to global techno-capital and algorithmic infrastructures. Immigration quotas and trade treaties are not proof of sovereignty’s survival but evidence of its capture by transnational capital. Nationalism’s dream of “pressuring the state” is fantasy; it mistakes the survival of the state-form for the survival of sovereignty. Immigration and Identity The housing crisis in Australia is not caused by migrants but by speculative finance, deregulation, and land hoarding. To frame immigration as the culprit is s...
