Tag: Fascism/Antifascism
Fascism Without a Mass Movement?
DK Renton responds to Spectre’s debate about Trumpism. To understand the process of authoritarian creep, Renton urges us to abandon the attempt to explain through mere taxonomy .
For a United Front Against Neofascism
Paul Ginsberg challenges Gordon and Webber’s view of Trumpism as liberal authoritarianism, arguing that it is a neofascist threat that must be fought both electorally and in the streets.
Fascism, Trump, and Trumpism
Justin Reed challenges Tood Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber’s mechanical application of Trotskyist analysis to describe Trumpism, arguing that it should be understood as a part of an international neofascist response to capitalist crisis.
“Gender Ideology,” Bodily Mutilation, and End of the Masculine West
Taking Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies as a starting point, Tiffany Berruti looks at the reactionary right’s fixation on trans persecution.
Varieties of White Nationalism
Shane Burley looks at Richard Spencer’s rebranding effort to illuminate the movement dynamics and political impasses of the “dissident” right.
Water on the Brain
Todd Gordon and Jeffery Webber argue that Trump’s second regime exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
Trump, Fascism, and the Authoritarian Turn
DK Renton looks to historic fascism to analyze the direction of Trump’s authoritarianism and for examples of a counterpolitics to fight it.
Tearing Down the Welfare State
Onni Ahvonen and Juulia Kela analyze the complicity between neoliberal austerity and disaster nationalism undermining the Finnish welfare state.
Acting Jewishly During a Genocide
Charlotte Rosen considers Joshua Leifer’s new book, which appears more likely to presage the author’s turn to Jewish conservatism than to be embraced by anyone on the left.
Tolkien’s Deplorable Cultus
Robert T. Tally Jr. reads Tolkien’s corpus with the tools of Marxist literary criticism, delivering a devastating blow to the fantasy writer’s rightist fans.