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Miguel Amorós: The likely causes of the rise of the extreme right in the capitalist world

The most striking political phenomenon of our recent era, which some rightly call the era of authoritarian leaders, is the rise of the extreme right in the partycratic/party-dominated capitalist countries. Some prefer to call it the radical, ultra-nationalist or populist … Continue reading

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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

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Charlottesville, Revisited—2017 to 2024

From the CrimethInc. collective (11/08/2024). What Can a Moment of Peril Tell Us about Our Own Dangerous Times? Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally. The organizers of the … Continue reading

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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

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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

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Gastón Gordillo: The Fascist Disposition

From the Verso Books Blog, 18/07/2024. This essay is the third in a roundtable discussion of Alberto Toscano’s Late Fascism. The others, from Jordy Rosenberg and Lisa Lowe, can be found here and here.  What does the word “fascism” mean today, when fossil capitalism continues its accelerated … Continue reading

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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

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Georges Bataille: Popular Front in the Street

The opium of the people in the present world is perhaps not so much religion as it is accepted boredom. Such a world is at the mercy, it must be known, of those who provide at least the semblance of … Continue reading

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France’s elections and the evolution of the National Rally party

From monde nouveau (03/07/2024) and Freedom News (08/07/2024). René Berthier: Answer to an Australian Comrade Question : One thing I’m interested in is the evolution of Rassemblement National itself. There are parts of the “catastrophist” left that want to depict it … Continue reading

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Bertolt Brecht: Writing the Truth – Five Difficulties (1935)

Fascism can be combated as capitalism alone, as the nakedest, most shameless, most oppressive, and most treacherous form of capitalism. Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. … Continue reading

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