Fascism’s purity mindset demands melting well-earned identity defenses into universalist solidarity

Evidence

That is one overarching message I choose to take at the end of my doppelganger journey: time to loosen the grip on various forms of proprietary pain and selfhood, and reach toward many different forms of possible connection and kin, toward anyone who shares a desire to confront the forces of annihilation and extermination and their mindsets of purity and perfection. Faced with the ultimate doppelganger threat—the flip into fascism that is already well underway in many parts of the world—this ability to melt some of the hard, icy edges of identity, however well earned those defenses may be, will be important to any hope we have of success. It will not be enough to protect “our” people; we will need to have the stamina of true solidarity, which defines “our people” as “all people.” — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 1083

Categorization

• XREF: This is the payoff of the doubling device — Klein’s personal experience of being confused with Doppelganger Wolf becomes the warrant for a universalist politics. Assess whether the evidential bridge holds. — connects to: Outsider groups serve as involuntary conduits for fascism’s own taboo impulses — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 145; Contemporary fascism operates by disavowing its own identity while pursuing its aims. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 492
• QUESTION: Does this conclusion follow from the personal doubling episodes, or does it overreach? The Israel/Palestine chapters’ political weight is being rested on this device.