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Search Results for: fascism
Bertolt Brecht: On the Theatricality of Fascism (1939)
Therefore learn how to see and not to gape.To act instead of talking all day long.The world was almost won by such an ape!The nations put him here his kind belong.But don’t rejoice too soon at your escape –The womb … Continue reading
Umberto Eco: Ur-Fascism
… the fascist game can be played in many forms, and the name of the game does not change. Umberto Eco Umberto Eco’s essay, “Ur-Fascism” (The New York Review of Books, 22/06/1995) remains a significant text in the cartography of … Continue reading
Georges Bataille: The Psychological Structure of Fascism
Fascism attempts to organise the newly proletarianised masses while leaving intact the property relations which the masses strive to abolish. Fascism sees its salvation in granting these masses not their rights, but instead a chance to express themselves. The masses … Continue reading
Against Liberal Fascism
War conducted by states against “communitarianism.” Implosion of popular communities. Negligence toward the weaving of our interdependences. And then, as if this social disaster wasn’t deep enough, emancipators who have nothing better to propose than the prisons of identity politics. … Continue reading
The Ecological Crisis and the Rise of Post-Fascism
From Ill Will, an essay authored by the Antithesi collective (18/02/2024) … Other languages: Türkçe, Español The ecological crisis profoundly impacts the material conditions of social reproduction, extending beyond “natural disasters” to encompass a deepening of the contradictions inherent in … Continue reading
Alberto Toscano: Notes on late fascism
This is the “last” of a short series of essays (with earlier pieces by Gerard Granel and Simone Weil) exploring dimensions of fascism, as the latter seemingly closes in about us. We share below an essay by Albert Toscano, a … Continue reading
Simone Weil: The waning of the working class, technique and the rise of fascism
The only hope of socialism resides in those who have already brought about in themselves, as far as is possible in the society of today, that union between manual and intellectual labour which characterizes the society we are aiming at. … Continue reading
Fascisms, yesterday and today
A reflection on Fascism, by Alessandro Stella, published with Lundimatin #402, 06/11/2023. Many people, unfortunately, have an outdated image of fascism, made up of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco and other military-political dictators of the 20th century claiming this ideology. Some are … Continue reading
Alberto Toscano: The War on Gaza and Israel’s Fascism Debate
From the Verso Books Blog (19/10/2023) … Western critics of Israel’s apartheid policies and far-right government are frequently accused of antisemitism, but leftist and left-liberal Israelis have been decrying the country’s descent into fascism for years. In this article, Alberto Toscano … Continue reading
Uri Gordon: Anti-fascism and the Gaza genocide
From Freedom News (09/09/2024). When the far right perpetrates mass murder on the cusp of world war, comparing is not a provocation but a duty Netanyahu seems greyer every day. A face caked in makeup, with dull eyes that sometimes … Continue reading →