Italian writer, socialist activist and former communist, died in 1978 Ignazio Silone warned:
The new fascism will not announce itself as fascism. It will present itself as anti-fascism, claiming the mantle of protection for democracy while erasing crucial freedoms in practice.
Few thinkers have captured the mood of our era as sharply as Silone did. Today, self-styled arch-democrats parade under bright banners, charging real democrats with every vice and even engineering violence that shocks the Western world. Freedom of speech becomes a constrained fiction, and consumer choice narrows to a single option dressed in many packages. To echo Silone, lawlessness arrives wearing the clothes of lawfulness, speaking the language of order while operating beyond it. It comes with a loud entrance and a swift hand, supported by a compliant security apparatus that claims to be both interpreter and enforcer of the law.
The clock has barely ticked past the first month of the new government when political prisoners appear. Public media have tilted toward coercive control. A media monopoly edges toward dissolution, yet not as a temporary concession, but as a steady transformation. A regime with a taste for centralized authority will not relinquish power easily. Fear of punishment and the human instinct for convenience drive that stubborn persistence.
The situation is urgent and disquieting. There is a need for a more precise label to describe what is unfolding, yet the term that fits is already clear: a regime. It stands apart from past forms, tailored to the era, yet undeniably a regime. It is a regime that centers control, clarity of purpose, and a streamlined version of governance—an archetype of contemporary power.
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(Source: wPolityce)