FONT OPORTO, PABLO
No
Torres Lucca
Article
Científica
01/01/2025
001410441700005
This paper aims to address some essential aspects of the origin of current eco-fascist positions. Understood as those that seek to preserve natural resources for a privileged minority (often of a racial nature) through the exclusion of large popular majorities, eco-fascist ideas are experiencing a moment of strong growth at a time of ecosocial crisis that is also developing in the context of a major civilisational crisis. We understand that the origins of these crises are precisely linked to a worldview that encourages certain collective imaginaries about them and that, in the end, feeds these eco-fascist positions. In our opinion, this worldview is based, within the hegemonic modern Western paradigm, on the consideration that the capacity of those belonging to this civilisation is unlimited, which inevitably leads to a cultural and practical configuration of an eco-colonial nature that denies other peoples, who are thus subalternised. We argue that the temptation to overcome the socio-environmental crisis through techno-optimistic solutions will only deepen this model. Moreover, technocracies pose a potential threat to democracy, in that they can be a channel for the normalisation of authoritarianisms characteristic of eco-fascist projects.
ecofascism; coloniality; socio-environmental conflicts; eco-social crisis