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MIC GLOBALIZATION
ACCELERATED, XENOPHOBIC POLITICIANS
IN FRANCE DEMANDED PROTECTIONISM WHILE
TARGETING FOREIGN WORKERS - ANGRY FRENCHMEN
MASSACRED DOZENS OF 'ITALIAN IMMIGRANT LABOURERS'
IN 1893!
White supremacists in the USA
had already stigmatized 'Chinese workers' with explicitly racist laws & rhetoric;
these were meant, along with segregationist policies against "African-Americans",
to restore the dignity of a growing number of white 'wage slaves'?! Demagogues in Austria-Hungary,
who scapegoated Jews for the mass suffering inflicted by the anonymous forces of global capitalism,
sought to copy anti-immigrant legislation introduced in America!? The Western scramble for Asia &
Africa in the late 19th century revealed that the political therapy offered by Cecil Rhodes - 'he who
would avoid civil war must be an imperialist' - had become increasingly deductive, especially
in Germany, which, though successfully industrialized
& wealthy, had fostered many
angry malcontents &
proto-imperialists!
At the dawn
of the 20th century,
as the world experienced global capitalism's first major
crisis, & the greatest international migration in history, anarchists
& nihilists seeking the liberation of individual will from old & new shackles
burst into terrorist violence!
They murdered
numerous heads of state, including one American president
(William McKinley), in addition to countless civilians in crowded public spaces!
D'Annunzio thus was only one of the many manipulators in a political culture
wrought by the West's transition to industrial capitalism & mass politics -
what the Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, touring the USA in 1916,
called a 'dense poisonous atmosphere of world-wide
suspicion and greed
and panic'!
In Italy,
the invasive bureaucracy of the new
state, and its brazen indulgence of a
rich minority, made the young
in particular much more
vulnerable to fantasies
of vengeful
violence!
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