Fascism

Fighting Fascism On A Budget

... own lives and communities without breaking the bank. Related: Seattle Resistance & Solidarity Calendar. When you’re working long hours and/or multiple jobs, it’s difficult to commit much time to volunteer work when you’re already overworked and exhausted. But if you’re able to, find one local organization in your neighborhood to donate a few hours to, whether weekly or monthly. Phone up your representatives! It only takes a few minutes to voice your concern and let your reps know that if they support policies like repealing the Affordable Care Act, which would threaten the lives of countless Americans, they will not have your support. Support Wisely. Where you choose to spend your money is tremendously important. Boycott businesses that support Trump ( __link__ is a great resource), consider divesting from big banks and ...

What Is A Fascist? Expert On Far-right Reveals All And Whether Trump Is One

... What is important to a fascist. The idea of regenerating the nation or the race they identify with by fantasising about or even enacting, a political and cultural revolution. What attracts people to fascist ideas. They are usually attracted by a profound rejection of the world around them, which they dismiss as irredeemably corrupt, and turn to fascism as it offers a dramatic alternative way of seeing the world. Are certain ideas fascist. A wide range of ideas have be ‘fascistised’, or turned to fascist ends, over the years. This includes some quite left wing ideas around empowering workers or helping the poor, while concepts from academic subjects such as anthropology and strands of philosophy were used to promote fascist causes in Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy. Do left-wingers misuse the word. Yes, all the time. ‘Fascism’ is often used simply as a ...

Fascism Will Fail In The Us Because Of ‘we The People

... and disputed in the work of French philosopher, sociologist and literary theorist Jean-François Lyotard, and other postmodernist thinkers, was the concept referred to as the “meta-narrative,” “master narrative,” or “grand narrative” explanation of human knowledge and historical experience. This “meta-narrative” constructs human history as a linear developmental tale emphasized by consistent movement forward to the (singular) inevitable and sustainable goal of “progress.” In other words, the history of society is one of continuing progress. Each human generation gets better than those going before in terms of knowledge and progress. If, as some who hold to the meta-narrative claim, that progress moves inevitably and invariably forward, if people believe “I think we’ll slowly get over this,” then individuals and entire societies are more likely to relinquish their responsibility in challenging forms of inequities because all inequities will inevitably disappear, since history itself will ensure “progress.”. Theorists like Lyotard, however, dispute the mega-narrative ...

Anti-fascist Activists Take On Trump And The Far Right

... for well over a year, but for anti-fascists, this is no time for discussion. “I’m pretty decided on the conclusion that it will be a total slide into fascism,” said Evan, an antifa from St Louis who asked not to be identified by his real name. “I think resistance is our only shot.”. Taking on a rightwing resurgence. Anti-fascist organizing has long existed outside of mainstream leftwing organizing in the United States. But as the far right has gained stature and attention amid the rise of Trump, anti-fascism has gained relevance. “The resurgence of the far right really began in the wake of Black Lives Matter, especially Ferguson,” said James Anderson, the editor of __link__, a website that promotes anti-fascist organizing. “Trump was another shot in the arm for them.”. “Anti-fascism has really grown in response to the far right trying to get back into the streets,” Anderson added, comparing its growth to the “explosion of anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian ideas” that occurred during the ...

Donald Trump's Actions Are Like A 'coup', Says Expert On Fascism

... Facism’s Empire Cinema” and an expert on fascist history. In a op-ed for CNN, she has warned of the Trump administration: “From their actions and pronouncements, we cannot exclude an intention to carry out a type of coup.”. She explains: “Many may raise their eyebrows at my use of this word, which brings to mind military juntas in faraway countries who use violence and the element of surprise to gain power. Our situation is different. "Trump gained power legally but this week has provided many indications that his inner circle intends to shock or strike at the system, using the resulting spaces of chaos and flux to create a kind of government within the government: one beholden only to the chief executive.”. Ms Ben-Ghiat continues: “Second is the unleashing of the political purges that authoritarians so ...

Trump Supporters Assaulted By Black Masked ‘anti-fascist’ Activists

... identifying as “Antifa”, self-styled anti-fascism activists who align with anarchism. The violence began when hundreds of anti-Trump demonstrators forcefully disrupted a speaking event featuring the conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos. The protests turned into full blown riots after “Antifa” rioters shot fireworks at the building in which the event was set to take place, smashing windows with police barricades and destroyed several large light fixtures. The Antifa members dressed in all black and wore gas masks and face coverings to hide their identity. These rioters led the most aggressive elements of the demonstration. Police and campus administrators repeatedly ordered the mob to disperse, to which rioters responded with chants of “Fuck you! Fuck you!” and “Fuck Trump!”. Several ...

Supreme Court Nominee Gorsuch In His Youth

... Merrick Garland, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court through the last ten months of Obama’s presidency. Critics will have the opportunity to highlight the continuity between Gorsuch’s youthful indulgence of “fascism” and his right-wing jurisprudence as an adult. Gorsuch will seek to draw a clear bright line between the two, which will not be easy. The confirmation hearings of the 49-year-old federal judge now loom as a hazardous minefield for the nominee and his supporters. Democrats will want to know. What did you know or think of fascism in high school? Did you identify with the fascist leaders like Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Augusto Pinochet? When you proclaimed yourself a fascist over those four years, did anyone ever tell you about the victims of fascist regimes? What did you say? What did you think was funny about Henry Kissinger’s quip? His willingness to act illegally? Or his desire to violate constitutional norms? Why did you find that humorous. “Apparently, the young Mr. Gorsuch felt that celebrating fascism was some sort of ...

What Is Fascism

... and so on," Montague said. Things were more complicated in Italy, where the poor benefitted marginally at the beginning of Mussolini's regime but suffered as his positions changed. In Germany and Italy, fascist government cartels determined many aspects of commerce, finance, agriculture and manufacturing, and made decisions according to what would further the state's power; however, they also allowed the conservative business elite to maintain property and increase their wealth. The cartels forcibly lowered wages and paid the workers with national pride. One element of fascism is collaboration with capitalists and the conservative elite. Fascists, even when they start out with radical ideas, always collaborate to move in the direction of protecting private property, Paxton told Live Science. This is, however, an awkward ...

A Few Examples Of How Societal Fascism Is Alive And Well In Brazil

... of the month or employment at the end of college education. Sousa Santos is correct when he says that expectations are stabilized by a set of share scales and equivalences: for a given work a given pay, for a given crime a given punishment, for a given risk a given insurance. The people who live under societal fascism are deprived of share scales and equivalences and therefore, of stabilized expectations. Consequently, they live in a constant chaos of expectations in which the most trivial acts may be met with the most dramatic consequences. Today in Brazil there are several manifestations of societal fascism. But Brazilian societal fascism, unlike of what some intellectuals think, is a phenomenon with roots in the national history. In this way, we can remember the case of Galdino Jesus, a Indian Pataxó from Northeast Brazil. In 1997, he went to Brasília to take part in march of the landless. The night was warm and he decided to sleep on a bench at the bus stop. In the early morning hours he was killed by three middle-class youths. As the youngsters confessed later on to the police, they killed the Indian for the fun of it. The ...