No, no, you're not dreaming! This isn't a job interview, even though
this sector is under pressure! ---- What brilliance, just in the title!
---- You hesitate to pull out this book in a waiting room for fear of
being perceived negatively, and yet it's worth a look. On the beach, it
would be the worst possible impression. There are plenty of writings on
anti-fascism where seriousness rivals richness and dryness of
documentation. ---- Mark Fortier has chosen a completely different angle
of attack. He questions the slide, follows this slow and gradual drift
towards the abandonment of so-called left-wing convictions.
Mark Fortier, "an obscure scribbler whose arrogance and bad faith know
no bounds," far from it. In his short book, the author skillfully wields
the pamphleteering style. His satirical style hits hard. Will his
conversion therapy to become a fascist be a success? This is not the
place to reveal the outcome of this long journey, which, from letting go
to gradual renunciation and resilience, leads the author to question and
ponder his relationship with fascism.
He has chosen a fairly light, easy-to-read style, echoing the
uninhibited, baseless, and outrageous register of fascism. He has
boarded this sinister vessel with sharp weapons, subtly delivered
throughout the pages. By opting for an initiatory, conformist, and
supposedly more protective path, he has tried to imagine himself taking
the great leap into the fascist unknown to conform before being
devoured. We discover him within his close family, whom he must inform
of the why and how of his conversion, and try to understand the ritual
quibbles.
Mark Fortier, with a deceptively naive air, lucidly analyzes fascist
discourse in its full and implicit form, especially in its implicit
form. He travels and crisscrosses the thought paths of Meloni's Italy,
Trump's United States, and Orban's Hungary. He invites Democratic,
Republican, and Socialist political figures to the great ball of lies,
to the great circus. He meanders through the twists and turns of the
discourses of power in the 1980s and beyond, demonstrating the slow
logic of the expansion of the soft underbelly of capitalism, of the
gradual acclimation to fascism, not a Mussolini-esque fascism or a
Hitlerian Nazism, built around the veneration of the State and planning,
but rather an illiberal fascism, deconstructing social relations and
advocating an uninhibited heap-taking by the wealthy. Mark Fortier
demonstrates the full fallacy and danger of these discourses, far beyond
their trivialization. He sweeps aside these nauseating claims to defend
the identity of civilization, where only the preservation of their
privileged class interests matters. He addresses the shift from the
notion of equality to that of diversity and the resulting dilution of
individualism.
Mark Fortier, through a wealth of quotations, weaves a formidable
anti-fascist web. However dearly his therapy cost him, let's hope he
fails in his conversion.
Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)
Mark Fortier, Becoming a Fascist: My Conversion Therapy, Lux, Lettres
libres collection, September 2025, 144 pages, EUR16.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Mark-Fortier-Devenir-fasciste-Ma-therapie-de-conversion
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this sector is under pressure! ---- What brilliance, just in the title!
---- You hesitate to pull out this book in a waiting room for fear of
being perceived negatively, and yet it's worth a look. On the beach, it
would be the worst possible impression. There are plenty of writings on
anti-fascism where seriousness rivals richness and dryness of
documentation. ---- Mark Fortier has chosen a completely different angle
of attack. He questions the slide, follows this slow and gradual drift
towards the abandonment of so-called left-wing convictions.
Mark Fortier, "an obscure scribbler whose arrogance and bad faith know
no bounds," far from it. In his short book, the author skillfully wields
the pamphleteering style. His satirical style hits hard. Will his
conversion therapy to become a fascist be a success? This is not the
place to reveal the outcome of this long journey, which, from letting go
to gradual renunciation and resilience, leads the author to question and
ponder his relationship with fascism.
He has chosen a fairly light, easy-to-read style, echoing the
uninhibited, baseless, and outrageous register of fascism. He has
boarded this sinister vessel with sharp weapons, subtly delivered
throughout the pages. By opting for an initiatory, conformist, and
supposedly more protective path, he has tried to imagine himself taking
the great leap into the fascist unknown to conform before being
devoured. We discover him within his close family, whom he must inform
of the why and how of his conversion, and try to understand the ritual
quibbles.
Mark Fortier, with a deceptively naive air, lucidly analyzes fascist
discourse in its full and implicit form, especially in its implicit
form. He travels and crisscrosses the thought paths of Meloni's Italy,
Trump's United States, and Orban's Hungary. He invites Democratic,
Republican, and Socialist political figures to the great ball of lies,
to the great circus. He meanders through the twists and turns of the
discourses of power in the 1980s and beyond, demonstrating the slow
logic of the expansion of the soft underbelly of capitalism, of the
gradual acclimation to fascism, not a Mussolini-esque fascism or a
Hitlerian Nazism, built around the veneration of the State and planning,
but rather an illiberal fascism, deconstructing social relations and
advocating an uninhibited heap-taking by the wealthy. Mark Fortier
demonstrates the full fallacy and danger of these discourses, far beyond
their trivialization. He sweeps aside these nauseating claims to defend
the identity of civilization, where only the preservation of their
privileged class interests matters. He addresses the shift from the
notion of equality to that of diversity and the resulting dilution of
individualism.
Mark Fortier, through a wealth of quotations, weaves a formidable
anti-fascist web. However dearly his therapy cost him, let's hope he
fails in his conversion.
Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)
Mark Fortier, Becoming a Fascist: My Conversion Therapy, Lux, Lettres
libres collection, September 2025, 144 pages, EUR16.
https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Mark-Fortier-Devenir-fasciste-Ma-therapie-de-conversion
_________________________________________
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
By, For, and About Anarchists
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