Éric Verhaeghe
17 avril 2022
Amongst the cultural elites, blocking fascism is currently on everyone's lips. In quick succession, we had the stand taken by sports personalities, then the stand taken by 500 artists, then the stand taken by 1,000 careworkers, all of them calling on us to block the National Rally, reclassified as far-right.
But where were all these sermonisers when Macron proclaimed, as President of the Republic, his intention “to piss off the unvaccinated”, who, according to him, were no longer really citizens?
I will come back tomorrow to the issue of these platform on the unvaccinated, which are worth their weight in peanuts.
In the meantime, we must hammer home how the health pass and the vaccination pass have marked the emergence of an ordinary bourgeois fascism, which now disqualifies any call to block the far right when it comes from those who have consented to the health dictatorship.
How is the health pass a mark of fascism?
For many, and in an overused way, fascism is the Shoah and the SS.
This view is wrong. Fascism was invented by Mussolini, in Italy, after the First World War. The regime did not practice anti-Semitism (at least not in its early stages) and Italy did not have a single concentration camp.
On the other hand, Mussolini practiced elements of the politics that we find in the health pass (which partly explains the appetite of certain Italians for this resurgence of a strong State). On the one hand (and this is fundamental), the health pass calls for the sacrifice of individuals in the interest of the group, and on the other hand, it degrades the rights of the minority which refuses government policy.
It is indeed the fundamental logic of the health pass that we find here, which is close to the logic of apartheid: the State knows two groups, one endowed with all of its rights, and the other with (strongly) reduced rights.
We understand the sophistry that justifies this rupture of the rule of law. "The unvaccinated are much sicker and much more contagious than the vaccinated", an assertion whose inanity is exposed by statistics. But this lie also stems from a fascist ideology, and demonising minorities is a part of its totalitarian modus operandi.
Nazism practiced it on Jews, homosexuals and a few others. Mussolini practiced it on homosexuals and Communists. Vichy practiced it on Jews and Freemasons, and Macron practiced it on the unvaccinated.
Ordinary bourgeois fascism
Of course, the fascism in question here is not that of Chaplin's Great Dictator, in brown uniform with a runic-shaped armband and ready to declare war on the entire planet to satisfy his murderous impulses.
No. It is a much more ordinary fascism. We're talking here about a bourgeois fascism, that of the caste of well-meaning people who live steeped in certainties, sheltered in the fashionable districts of the big cities, who have no problem making ends meet, and who do not understand that we do not share their vision of the world.
It is the latent, presentable, honorable, fascism of all those who, last winter, shamelessly called for the starvation of the unvaccinated in order to force them to accept the vaccine.
We find here the two characteristic impulses of fascism. On the one hand, sacrificing certain members of the group is not a problem (in particular, youngsters falling to side effects) when this sacrifice is deemed to be in the group's best interests. On the other hand the defamation and hatred of the unvaccinated because they do not submit to the pressure of the group.
This bourgeois fascism was, in its time, the fascism of Vichy… the one which closed its eyes to the status of the Jews, and which preferred to lower its gaze when the trains took their deportees to Auschwitz.
Tricked by the ironies of history
History is ironic.
Amongst all those who supported the health pass as a proportionate and intelligent measure, how many of them are now denouncing the dangers of the far right?
Very, very many of them…
Many explain to us that Marine Le Pen is the return of Vichy. But the real Vichy is the health pass.
Here again, it takes a sacred capacity for denial, so characteristic of the globalist bourgeoisie, to dare to denounce the speck in the eyes of others, without seeing the beams in their own. Because the presumed fascism of Marine Le Pen is found, in reality, in the nostalgia for the Vichy regime.
But oppression, the totalitarian loss of rights due to the health pass, which is only the beginning, it is not a memory of 1940. It is happening today, with the same indifference of those who, in 1940, pretended not to see, and sometimes justified the persecution of Jews and Freemasons.
Basically, it is a Pharisee fascism that has taken power, and it is blessed with zero credibility.
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