Gabriel Rockhill

GABRIEL ROCKHILL—The video presents a comprehensive lecture on the global theory industry, its intellectual history, and the material social forces shaping it, particularly emphasizing left anti-communism and its impact on critical theory. Prof. Rockhill traces their personal intellectual journey from an initial engagement with radical critical theory rooted in the Frankfurt School and French theory (structuralism and post-structuralism) to a materialist critique of these traditions and the broader apparatus of knowledge production under neoliberal capitalism. The central argument is that the dominant global theory industry promotes a generalized critical theory that cloaks conservative and anti-communist worldviews in radical discourse, limiting genuine revolutionary and anti-capitalist thought.

EDITORS—Prof. Rockhill presents an in-depth overview of fascism, stressing that this ideology far from being defeated in WW2, actually survived and prospered thanks to the protection of the West’s intel services, chiefly the CIA and MI6, who offered prominent Nazis ratlines (with Vatican assistance) to escape to the US, Canada and Latin America, and literally integrated many of these fascists in their ideological, intelligence, and military networks. As a result, fascism, which usually exists semi-submerged, side by side with “liberal democracy,” and simply moves almost seamlessly to replace it when capitalism is threatened by a serious crisis and pro-worker mobilizations, is now clearly thriving again across many key nations in the so-called “collective West”.