Understanding fascism requires analyzing cultural expression, not just voting and economics.

Evidence

For some conventional scholars of the far right the current interest in the relationship between xenophobia, popular culture, and new technologies is little more than a fashionable intellectual chimera. They caution that the “real issue” is what is happening in terms of the ballot box and the macroeconomic and political trends that underpin political mobilizations. Such a view misses the importance of vernacular culture - be it mediated by technology or other forms - in sustaining what Deleuze and Guattari call the “molecular nature” of authoritarian politics. … In order to understand fascism, either in its generic or contemporary forms, it is crucial to develop a sensitivity to the relationship between politics, culture, and the mass media. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2542

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘molecular nature’ of authoritarian politics as a vernacular-culture mechanism.
• XREF: connects to: Fascist art can encode genuine protest against reified social life