The 4T revives fascist corporatism

The hosts of Fidel Velázquez were no longer there , but those of the leaders who have dragged the members of their union organizations into the ranks of the so-called Fourth Transformation were.

This recent Sunday, the Plaza de la Constitución was packed with oil workers, teachers, workers from the capital’s government, and members of the unions of the Napoleón Gómez Urrutia miner and Pedro Haces , which brings together all types of employees and workers.

Back to the corporatist past. The one that serves to run campaigns, to hold celebrations, even to get people to the polls… but that is totally useless for governing democratically. They are mere scenery or, worse still, simple and disposable props.

Nothing strange. The 4T is based on fascism, which was evident after the “caudillo”, a local expert in always watering the tepache, used the UN’s virtual platform to praise the comparison between the first names of Juárez and Mussolini.

Since then, too much rubbish has flown under the bridges. The harsh criticism of the ill-advised audacity flooded the international newspapers and networks in open mockery of the blunder.

One thing is unfortunately certain: it is the platform from which the Mexican apparatus is becoming a buffoonish repetition of the behaviors that characterized fascism, now in our lands. Something is wrong, something that is rapidly perverting the way of life, from the unprecedented snubs of the four-party government.

When the Great Fascist Council was sworn in in Italy as the instrument of domination, its leader, il Duce , established the doctrine: “fascism has neither statutes nor rules”, thus achieving the best synthesis of the principles that guided it, the disappearance of the rule of law, the totalitarian conception, the replacement of the union and business system by corporatism.

From the annihilation of political competitors to the establishment of dictatorship, through opposition to democracy and parliamentarism, rejection of the belief in progress and pacifism, contempt for individual rights, to the exaltation of the State as the supreme historical entity, as the last ratio of justice and of possible life in society.

“The State is always right,” the ultimate expression of Benito Mussolini, laid the foundations for an intellectual totalitarianism, promoting the belief in the possession of the truth, to dictate it at all times, to impose itself above all.

He created a huge propaganda structure that began with the mobilization of his troops and achieved a monopoly on the Italian media, with aggressive phrases and the development of a kind of indigenous imperialism that sought to resurrect the glory of the Roman Empire.

Here the newspapers “nod” in praise of Claudia Sheinbaum ‘s supposed first hundred days — in reality the hundred additional days to AMLO’s six-year term — and for the past six years, pre-Hispanic Mexico has been glorified.

Philofascism is present

The myth of fascist modernity was organically articulated in the strategies of the Council, in the structures of the party, in the various formations: the shock groups ( principi ), the regular militants ( triar i), structured in legions, cohorts, centuries, maniples and squads of raiders.

The youth groups ( figli della Lupa, balilla and avanguarditi ), female shock groups ( Picole italiane ) and other financed rabble gave the government its majority. On 3 January 1925 the Fascist State was officially proclaimed.

To ensure strict compliance, a political police was created, the Organisation for the Surveillance and Repression of Antifascism — OVRA — and an exceptional court that subordinated all individual freedoms, reasons or rights to the supremacy of the State, which in turn was personified by its leader. Mussolini seized all power… and so it went.

His former supporters, disappointed by his monumental mistakes, ended up hanging him upside down, together with Clara Petacci , in the suburbs of Rome, and their corpses were feasted on by dogs for a long time. Public calm and pride in the triumphs in the Balkans and Africa gave way to the vengeance inherited from the fascist regime within a few years.

The disappearance of il Duce , a kind of tlatoani, did not end with the death of fascism; his influence during the following eighty years, from positions of power and clandestinely, has remained latent in numerous pro-fascist groups that do not dare to speak their name, and generally operate from caves armed with weapons.

Zero hour of democracy

In Mexico, fattening their broth is like thinking that Donald Trump’s fascism needs swimming bladders. We have not learned that he rules alone and that he will suffer the same fate as the local champions.

The law of life, which states that it is not acceptable to copy the worst of others to turn it into an ideological creed, has had an impact on us in a very funny way. Here, the fascios de combattiento are the ever-smaller gangs of troublemakers who lend themselves to the cake, the chesco and some ill-gotten coins to attack citizens who demonstrate or express themselves peacefully.

It may be the serpent’s egg, and some still do not realize it. They do not know that this path leads to historical regression, to the collapse of coexistence and to armed confrontation between brothers. It is time to stop the Chairo uproar that tries to destroy the bases of political awareness about the disaster that overwhelms us.

In our constantly developing political society, it is a matter of obeying the rule of law. Normally, reason is on the side of the critical society that demands respect for freedoms, democracy and general development. It has never been any other way.

This is the view of all scholars of civic culture of all times. Functionalists and structuralists, from Robert Dahl and David Easton , precursors of the subject, to Samuel P. Huntington and Giovanni Sartori , the latter a victim of the excesses of ordinary and predatory fascism.

As civilization and dignity indicate, we are tired of imitators. Those who hear freedom and fraternity, and only manage to repeat “tad” and “dad”, to paraphrase the great Jean Paul Sartre of the old days of European colonialism. We are in the twenty-first century and, definitely, it is not worth it.

Once again, we are at the zero hour of democracy, in the rebirth of the fighting spirit of the Mexicans. Whoever does not understand this may suffer the same fate as the fascists of eighty years ago.

The civic development of the Nation is by nature unstoppable. Anyone who doubts this is willing to pay the price. Power is borrowed from the people who are now resisting and will not last forever. What will remain is the value and courage of the citizens.

Clues

Unfortunately, Mexico is not “the most democratic country in the world” as President Sheinbaum says. In any case, it is a “hybrid regime” that ranks 89th out of 167 countries. With data from 2022, it has 5.25 points out of 10 in the electoral process and pluralism. In government functioning, 6.92. In political participation 7.22. In political culture 1.22. And 5.59 in civil rights. * * * That’s all for today. My appreciation to you for having read this text. As always, I wish you good thanks and many, many days!

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