Posts tagged: fascism

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  Twenty-First Century Fascism: Where We Are

  Enzo Traverso on post-fascism in times of pandemic.

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  For Rossana Rossanda, Communism Was a Choice Compelled by Reason

  In this excerpt, taken from an unpublished 2002 interview, Rossana Rossanda opens up about becoming a Communist in Fascist Italy

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  Towards Fossil Fascism?

  Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective explore the historical basis, political arguments and future implications of the far right's role in the climate crisis. Far right governance gives rise to ecofascism and a future built on crisis and nationalism. 

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  White Skin, Black Fuel: a Letter from the Editor

  Malm and the Zetkin Collective's latest contribution reveals the racist roots of ecofascism.

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  Islamophobia, ‘Islamo-leftism’, (post)fascism

  In an interview with Lucion Nanni, historian Enzo Traverso looks at the current rise of Islamophobia and fascism in Europe today.

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  Scapegoating Trump: Reflections on the Question of Fascism in America

  Peter E. Gordon questions what really caused the anti-democratic assault on the Capitol and whether we should call the President a fascist.

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  Black Antifascism and Fighting Today’s Far Right

  We Charge Genocide is the ur-text of Black antifascism. It is the most comprehensive and detailed evidence we have of how African-American radicals have systematically challenged and defined the threat of a native fascism in the United States. Recovering and mobilizing the tradition of Black Antifascism is essential to strategic confrontation with today’s far-right.

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  The Authoritarian Personality

  Adorno's The Authoritarian Personality "represents one of the most sophisticated attempts to explore the origins of fascism not merely as a political phenomenon, but as the manifestation of dispositions that lie at the very core of the modern psyche."

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  Chi Chang: A Chinese American Volunteer in the Spanish Civil War

  Chi Chang, a Chinese emigrant to the United States who joined the Communist Party and volunteered for the International Brigades to fight fascism during the Spanish Civil War. His story is retold here by Hwei-Ru Tsou and Len Tsou, and translated into English from the original Chinese by Agnes Khoo.

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  Fascism, Racial Capitalism, and Police Violence: Antifascist Reflections from the 1930s to the Black Panthers

  Blackness and Black Lives Matter call attention to the ever-present potential of racial capitalism to turn fascist. This leads to an important lesson of Black Lives Matter and its response to the police: its abolitionist awareness that not only is the capitalist state an enemy of the people, but that it can and should be replaced.

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  Black Panthers’ United Front against Fascism conference

  An account of the Black Panthers’ United Front against Fascism (UFAF) conference in August 1969 that appeared in the Old Mole, a paper of the Students for a Democratic Society.

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  Seductive Fascist Style

  Theodor Adorno remains one of the key sources for understanding the desire for Fascism, notably in his groundbreaking work The Authoritarian Personality. In this article Max L. Feldman reads Adorno's writings on Fascism, alongside Disney's 1991 film The Beauty and the Beast, to analyse the contemporary resurgence of the far-right and the enduring relevance of Adorno's work.