smaller local bourgeoisies and petit-bourgeoisies are now trying to recapture their “abandoned” regions and neo-colonies and are starting “anti-imperialist” campaigns and wars of morphed nationalism against global imperialism.

These struggles—which everywhere attract mass support from the dispossessed male classes—can range politically from neo-fascist and clerical fascist to the authoritarian left, but are usually far-right. These are intra-capitalist wars of local capitalist insurgencies trying to win back control of “their” nations from the Great Powers.

So the u.s. empire is actually being attacked in a series of conflicts by popular clerical-fascist movements in the former Third World, as at the same time a growing neo-fascist opposition is being “normalized” within the Western bourgeois democracies. Two expressions of the same trend.

You can see this legitimation of pro-fascist sentiment once lightly camouflaged in the u.s. Anti-War activities, where joint demonstrations with far-right Muslim groups who advocate the enslavement of women and genocide against ethnic minorities is common—and where anyone who questions allying with islamic clerical fascism is attacked as “racist.”

This unexpected “normalization” and mass acceptance of widely different forms of neo-fascism is the most significant political development in current world politics.

— The Shape of Things to Come by J. Sakai (Page 215)