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am i taking crazy pills?
What's the context of that? i.e. what are these "new pieces" referred to? I had the very vague impression that Adam Tooze was somewhere left-of-centre (though not at all sure how far to the left) and a reasonably informed analyst of political matters.
But I don't get how "opposition to Anglo-American hegemony" can be a defining trait of fascism - don't see where that comes from at all. I mean, it's a trait of Continental European fascism, sure, but doesn't seem like an essential characteristic of the entire ethos.
Don't really understand the rest of that excerpt either - the 'right' seems every bit as keen on fighting a top-down class-war as it ever was, if anything it seems to be stepping up the pace and intensity of it - cf Liz Truss's budget, and the redistribution of wealth upwards that occured during the pandemic - while the 'far right' has _always_ been a bit more ambivalent about class than the mainstream right, sometimes stealing the left's clothes and incorporating bits of socialist policies.
Certainly the far-right is quite 'workerist' in it's political agenda, the US far-right constantly denounces the elites and the wealthy, it seems quite Strasserite, even openly decrying neo-liberalism, but that's not really new.
The only bit that makes any sense on the face of it, is the observation that Trump was not particularly focused on war with foreign powers. In that respect alone Trumpery seems not to fit the pattern of traditional European fascism (that generally fetishised and craved war)
I wouldn't care, except I have this vague idea that Adam Tooze is not an idiot (I think I have his book on the financial crash somewhere, but haven't got round to reading it yet) so I'm curious what is actually behind this snippet.