"How can we explain the fact that some anarchists and many other leftists are respecting health rules dictated by a “state of exception,” while fascists are the ones reclaiming their freedom to do whatever they like? There is a comedic exchange of roles, whereby fascists proclaim themselves as the “defenders of freedom” and progressives emerge as the defenders of the law. This, too, signals the dissolution of the twentieth-century political landscape."

Franco "Bifo" Berardi dissects the concept of freedom as claims to it mutate and morph between leftists and fascists in mid-pandemia. What is left of free will when techno-capitalism has inscribed its priorities as an absolute necessity into every aspect of social relations? What is left of free opinion when corporate media saturate every moment of attention?