Ecofascist ideologies flourish when conditions justify real genocidal logistics

Evidence

That ecofascist thought would surge in our particular historical moment is, sadly, predictable. We live in a time when having two jobs is no guarantee of affording a home and many of our governments consider bulldozing homeless encampments to be a viable policy solution. Meanwhile, every day brings us closer to a future of climate breakdown that, if it is not slowed and reversed, will surely lead to the culling of large parts of our and other species, hitting the most vulnerable first and worst. The process is already well underway. Being alive in a knife-edge moment like this, being forced to be complicit in it, while our so-called leaders fail so miserably to act, unavoidably generates all kinds of morbid symptoms. Inevitably, people reach for narratives to make sense of this reality. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 557

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Directly parallel to the ‘On Sacrifice’ article’s argument that ritual violence is stabilized by stratified societies — here material crisis (housing precarity, climate breakdown) destabilizes and feeds apocalyptic culling narratives.
• XREF: connects to: Under total mobilization even genocidal calculus becomes rational self-justification — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 237