Working Definition of Neo-Fascism
- The Green Fenix
- Jan 25
- 1 min read
Neo-Fascism is an organized movement, whose proponents advocate and organize to achieve victories within neoliberal democracies that aim to collapse liberal social contracts at every neoliberal institutional-bureaucratic-systemic decision-making point, by lobbying and advocating for laws, policies and administrative procedures and protocols, that make the neoliberal system actor, like police, probation, Sheriffs and ICE Officers, "the sovereign" per Carl Schmitt, thus transforming them into agents of neo-fascism. Through these laws, policies and administrative procedures and protocols, the system actor self-delegates, or is given the power to collapse the neoliberal social contract at that decision-making point, by giving the system actor the power to decide who is punished, who is not, and even the power to decide who lives and who dies through the executive discretion to decide on the exceptions to the law. Thereby the system actor becomes the "living law," with executive discretion to define what is the public good, and beyond that, with the power to decide on the exception to the very U.S. Constitution, our social contract itself, in the name of law and order and security. Neo-Fascism is the distribution of sovereign exception across multiple system actors. Neo-Fascism doesn't need to capture the entire state, it operates by making each system actor a micro-sovereign at their decision-making points. Neo-Fascism is necropolitics (Achille Mbembe) or thanatopolitics, the sovereign power over death.