Fascists have it easy

A great comment by Patroklos at MoonOfAlabama:

nazifasicism is a tool the capitalists use to fight socialism/communism in desperate times.

Ain't that the truth. You can always count on the conservative self-loathing of the masses. This is the edge the right always has over the left. For the left to succeed they have to prepare the ground, while the right is able to exploit the existing terrain untreated. Neoliberal capitalism cocoons us in myths about ourselves and the world: the necessity of work, the independence of the economy from politics, value lies only in economic utility, performance evaluations are accurate measures of who you are and what you're worth, etc, etc. We resist all this and so are encouraged to hate ourselves for our dissent. The left says "the suspicion you feel that this is not how humans should live together is correct. We must turn this suspicion into critique". But this requires time, education, respect, and an appeal to science and humanism. It's like pushing shit uphill. In the meantime the Right have simple tools—ignorance, fear, hate, violence. It's a winning formula. Where's Robespierre when we need him?