Voting for Republicans is Voting for Fascism
It is up to all of us to be honest and clear eyed about what it means to support such a party that doesn’t support democracy
Tagged: fascism
Book Burning
“Desktop covid dividers and a refrigerator was “to be recycled.” But the five books deemed inappropriate were “to be destroyed.”
The Antifa Case for Voting Trump
Donald Trump is no fascist. He’s a convenient bad guy, the mustachioed villain tailor made for everyone to boo…But Hitler he ain’t.
Batman vs Superman, Seriously
So if “doing what works” is a working definition of fascism, and an affinity for “doing what works” makes Batman fascist, and Superman
fascist, what does that mean for us poor old everyday humans
Sunday Morning! J.G. Ballard’s Shopping Maul
Rereading J.G. Ballard’s final novel about consumers who turn to absentminded fascism when shopping loses its appeal.
The Rise and Fall of British Fascism
Why did fascism fail in 1930s Britain? And what lessons can we learn to make sure that it fails in the 21st century?
Radical Reading: The Doctrine of Fascism
Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism and its relevance today.
The third in a series discussing radical books on the left or right.
Donald Trump and Fascism
Trump is not a fascist, but he has tapped into a movement on the Right that is growing and confident.
Free Speech Is Dead, Donald Sterling Edition
First, it was Brendan Eich, a heroic American whose only alleged transgression was lending financial support to a political movement explicitly predicated on the idea that gays were a threat to the safety and...
Neo-Liberalism Again
Henry Farrell summarizes neoliberalism as defined by Colin Crouch in The Strange Non-death of Neo-liberalism: Crouch depicts classical liberalism and social democracy as mirror images of each other. Both are intensely suspicious of the...
Some Real “F”ers
Andrew Sullivan posts this video: Violence Warning. Sullivan is creating a series (more here, here, and here). Second warning–the last link in that series is particularly horrific. I’ll simply link to them but not...
