https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/ce73581e-6071-4403-ac55-73197ec7d030 There’s this tendency for some of the left to explain away the rise in right-wing populism to simply just racism. Racism as an idea, institutionally enforced in western culture. But this isn’t necessarily the case. Waving away the rise of these political movements as simply just people being racist is incomplete and sloppy. It undermines the role of the real material conditions, the developments of the capitalist mode of production, that are at the root of these movements. The historic rise of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has likewise been covered extensively across the social and traditional media. She and the party are portrayed as foul actors, deviations of an otherwise fine system. This video will discuss the concrete realities which facilitated the growth of nationalist politics in Australia, the nexus that has garnered around it that’s worth billions, and how the vision of this movement intrinsically fails to address the many crises we face. Why did the middle classes support fascism? https://youtu.be/RqESHNvmP20?si=exA0vRAWftjZ0rB8 Genocide & The Great Australian Dream: https://youtu.be/2RLlPP4SpsI?si=DXv5hy-OaW4d5c1S The Great Australian Trap: https://youtu.be/SvaR77_EmJ8?si=uIGUx2ZgiFdnN4QK script and sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgRzBC87d3bPHAD0LTLbBlZ0Y_SUJ2MDQSC-PxIqB-w/edit?usp=sharing 0:00-0:55 intro 0:55-6:45 class origins 6:45-13:18 one nation today 13:18-14:47 conclusion Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:05:28 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/ce73581e-6071-4403-ac55-73197ec7d030 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.