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“If you want to see our future, look at Brazil,” noted Dr. Bones, an egoist commentator based in the US, in a recent episode of The Guillotine Podcast. He noted that streets of São Paulo and other cities across Brazil have become ungovernable, allowing for the rise of both criminal gangs and leftist movements. However, they have also been a public theatre for the return of a worrying fascist tendency growing increasingly powerful across the Americas and the world, particularly in the Philippines and the United States. This political tendency, defined by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman as "subfascism" may act as the chief opponent to radical change across the world in the coming decades. With the mass slaughter of proletarians under Rodrigo Duterte, the horrific concentration camps for refugee children under Trump, and the rise of ultra-rightist and violent militarist and misogynist Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil amid the assassination of left-wing social movement leaders, it...

As right-wing authoritarians inch towards power in countries like Italy and Germany, Brazil, already in the clutches of a reactionary government dominated by American multinationals, may be at risk of seeing its democratic political system wiped out entirely, as an ex-general known for his admiration of military dictatorship prepares to seize the reigns of a state increasingly repressive of left-wing and anarchist movements. Jair Bolsonaro , ahead in the polls by over 6%, ticks all the boxes of a totalitarian-in-waiting. He is violently misogynistic, making threats of rape in parliament to left-wing feminist politicians. He is homophobic, with his supporters taking to the streets last autumn to oppose queer theorist Judith Butler, branding her a “witch." And most disturbingly, he has suggested that the military should have murdered his political opponents when they were in power during the military dictatorship of the 60s and 70s, a regime so infamous that "Brazilian...