Agents of chaos and agents of automaton on the horizon of mutation (translated in english from:
https://www.diario.red/articulo/armas-para-pensar/introduccion-siglo-xxi/20250101225440040587.html)
A South African racist named Elon Musk, who newspapers consider the richest man in the world, has recently earned himself another, more interesting epithet:
an agent of chaos , The Guardian called him on December 20, echoing a definition that
The New York Times had already proposed in 2022. I think this is an imprecise definition, or at least too simple. I do not believe that Musk has the historical function of promoting chaos, unless he does so in an apparent way. His political activity, starting with the purchase of Twitter, is aimed at destroying the State and the public structures built during the modern era. In this sense, Musk's project coincides with that of Steve Bannon and the Trump administration in general
But Musk's multifaceted activity, in addition to this definitive destruction of the modern order, that is, the completion of the work begun by Thatcherite liberalism, includes a constructive part: the construction of a system of total control of the global telecommunications system (Starlink) and the creation of interfaces between the biological and the digital, which will make possible the creation of fully intelligent automata (Neuralink). A few days ago, the South African racist, in a commentary at Welt
Am Sonntag , took a position on the upcoming German elections, supporting Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). It is not a Nazi party, Musk said, arguing the following:
The description of AfD as a far-right party is clearly false, given the fact that Alice Weidel, the party's leader, has a same-sex partner who is from Sri Lanka. Do you think this has anything to do with Hitler?
The question deserves further reflection. It is true that individuals like Donald Trump, or parties like the German AfD, seem very different from the Nazionalist Socialist Party. And they really are: first of all, Trumpism has erased all reference to socialism, which Hitler had instead retained not only in the name of his party, but also in some of the social policies implemented by the Third Reich. In addition, the entire imaginary world that formed the background of Hitler's regime (the dark colours of the uniforms, the rigidity of the poses, etc.) has been replaced by the explosion of colour and the carnivalesque excitement of the MAGA crowds. The severe Gothic style of the territorialised and Protestant industrial bourgeoisie is replaced by the dazzling baroque of the mafia-like lumpen-bourgeoisie, which, from Berlusconi to Trump, has re-established power over the spectacular worldview.
So, should we abandon the assimilation of global Trumpism with Hitlerian Nazism, which the left has perhaps used to frighten the electorate, which has gradually become accustomed to not being impressed by the bogeyman of Nazism? Yes and no. No, because in fact the resurgence of the colonialist racial supremacism of the white West is the long-term historical function of the global reactionary movement of which Trump is the symbol and Musk the main instrument. The enemy that Hitler believed had to be exterminated was the Jews, while for contemporary racial supremacists the enemy that must be exterminated is the immense masses of colonized peoples who, although incapable of launching an internationalist political offensive, constitute a danger to Western stability by their mere existence, by their migratory movements and by their demands for the redistribution of global wealth. The Israeli army, and the Israeli people themselves, look very different from Hitler's SS from an aesthetic and political point of view, but they perform the same function as the latter when it comes to exterminating the enemies of Western civilization, which for Hitler were the Jews and for Israel are the colonized peoples, who claim the right to survival and possibly a territory.
The regime that is now unstoppably asserting itself throughout the West is, on the other hand, the consequence and full implementation of the economic liberalism that has been in force since the 1980s, which has been brought about with the very active collaboration of the European left in general. Liberal democracy is now annihilated everywhere, but the fundamental rule of the destruction of rules and their replacement by the
absolute rule of maximum profit is confirmed and exalted by those who have made the word
freedom their motto, provided it is clear that it is about the freedom of the slave owners. The progressive left has been a dependent function of liberalism during this last phase, when the workers' movement was to be liquidated. This function was performed by the progressive left and the democrats, and for this reason they are and will be the object of eternal contempt. But now the left is disappearing and what is emerging is a regime, which no longer has much to do with the fascism of the past. I decided long ago to adopt the term Nazi
-liberalism.
