Authoritarian Capitalism and Digital Demagogue
by Christian Fuchs
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/15/18815689.php
Trump is not an individual phenomenon but one of many structural manifestations of the sudden change of neoliberalism into authoritarian capitalism.
The media’s profit-mongering intensifies the visibility of rightwing ideology. Enlightenment has a negative dialectic under conditions of capital.
Authoritarian capitalism represents a crisis of the Left. Socialist humanism is the only remedy against rightwing demagogue.
