WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

 

Warwick Powell looks at how anti-fascist social advance can be secured through Parliamentary Democracy? We have been here before...

'The ghosts of the 1930s return, but they return to a world where the stage is crowded with new actors who remember colonialism and intend to write their own futures. Whether the Western left can marshal a meaningful anti-fascist politics based on a defence of liberal parliamentarism without the material legitimacy it has squandered — and without falling into the very authoritarian traps it claims to oppose — remains the open question of this terrifying start to the 21st century.........An anti-fascist politics is needed. But, an anti-fascist politics cannot be viably created if the aim is to somehow return to a status quo ante within the parameters of existing economic settlements, parliamentary institutions and prevailing coalitions of political constituencies. The rise of fascism is precisely against the institutions of the status quo ante. Old political coalitions are fragmenting. New constituencies need to be defined and curated.'



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