Well but that's the point. No one taking a materialist approach to history can say that Jan 6 represents anything like a fundamental, organized threat to the last institutions standing in the way of fascist control. It's not that. The right wing reactionaries are more organized than most of the left right now, sure, but they aren't capable of organizing their way to coordinated radical political power. It's the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. None of these groups have any marked control over the levers of power, and most of the people that do have such power consider the grassroots fascism of the alt-right to be too destabilizing to allow any influence to them. It's a nice distraction from the looting and expropriating. Interesting sure, but not a particularly big deal in and of itself, or surprising.
Well but that's the point. No one taking a materialist approach to history can say that Jan 6 represents anything like a fundamental, organized threat to the last institutions standing in the way of fascist control. It's not that. The right wing reactionaries are more organized than most of the left right now, sure, but they aren't capable of organizing their way to coordinated radical political power. It's the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. None of these groups have any marked control over the levers of power, and most of the people that do have such power consider the grassroots fascism of the alt-right to be too destabilizing to allow any influence to them. It's a nice distraction from the looting and expropriating. Interesting sure, but not a particularly big deal in and of itself, or surprising.