LEFT BEHIND

According to the book's press release, "the trends Mills excoriated have intensified to a degree even he could not imagine." The "march of authoritarianism and the fascist Right" continues unabated not simply in the presidency of Donald Trump or the continuing power and influence of the bogeyman Koch brothers, but equally in the pro-charter school philanthropy of Bill Gates, the media empire of Oprah Winfrey, the ESG-crazed asset management fund BlackRock, and Barack Obama's drone-strike "assassination program." [...]Gautney's second problem of analysis, the question of fascism. Following orthodox Marxism, she also maintains that fascism as it is known historically is simply the natural sociopolitical order of monopoly capitalism; as capitalism tends by its inner logic toward monopoly, its political order tends likewise toward fascism: the unification of state and capital, militarism, xenophobic nationalism, and charismatic dictatorship.