Greetings everyone.
A while back I promised that I would start a regular podcast on Left critiques of fitness culture, the manosphere, five-percenter “hardcore” fascism and so on. This is the first installment of a series on that topic or set of topics. I ardently feel like this is a timely subject since on both YT and the massive ecosystem of fitness/wellness podcasts there’s a MAGA problem. I try to set-up the nature of that problem here; it seems to me that a shift took place at the same time of the rise of right-wing populism, not just the fragmentation and dissolution of an old conjuncture but new formations in unexpected corners of the late modern world. White supremacist thugs emerged under Trump and that’s no surprise, since that’s one of the necessary features of fascism. What was (and is) alarming to me is the shift in the “hardcore” or five percenter fitness world in the direction of MAGA ideology. This has happened, and yet there are some ambivalences and opportunities for us on the Left. I will talk about those opportunities soon. For now, enjoy this introduction.
Here’s a picture of Rich Piana. RIP man.
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