"And Gaza is simply an experiment of the mega rich trying to show all the peoples of the world how to respond to a rebellion of humanity. They plan to bomb all of us, those of us at least in the South but they will end up as in Guernica, bombing themselves with foreign weapons. And that prospect of barbarism obviously kills multilateralism for nations to meet, kills the idea of a global democracy, kills the whole international institutionality.

I have asked for a meeting with the U.S. government and there is not even a written answer. Because they do not want to meet with Latin American and the Caribbean. Because they know that by meeting with each separately they are stronger. And so they do not dialog, they threaten as is already happening to us. Some are afraid of the threat, others of us have become so accustomed to that we are no longer afraid of it.

And history has been like that among our people, stories of rebellions and barbarism. And we are living the possibility of barbarism, but also dialectic, the possibility of another different humanity, which can love and think collectively. And we survive, because the other form of help, besides of the heart, is thinking. And the parable of Newton and the parable of Robinson Crusoe is lie, illusions, fetishes. Like so many that we live. We live among ghosts, because capitalism is a ghost, and sometimes we believe the tale of ghosts."

On January 6, Trump supporters gathered at a rally at Washington DC’s Ellipse Park, regaled by various figures from Trump world, including Donald Trump Jr. and Rudy Giuliani. Directly following Giuliani’s speech, the organizers played a video. To a scholar of fascist propaganda, well-versed in the history of the National Socialist’s pioneering use of videos in political propaganda, it was clear, watching it, what dangers it portended. In it, we see themes and tactics that history warns pose a violent threat to liberal democracy. Given the aims of fascist propaganda – to incite and mobilize – the events that followed were predictable.

Before decoding what the video presents, it is important to take a step back and discuss the structure of fascist ideology and how it can mobilize its most strident supporters to take violent actions.