@roland@devdilettante.comThe anti-alarmists e.g. Ezra Klein, Matt Yglesias, Bret Stephens, Corey Robin, Jon Stewart, David Brooks, William Watson, John Harris, Simon Jenkins, Zachary Karabell, Josh Barro, and Noah Feldman — scolded & derided the Cassandras. Going forward, we should be skeptical of giving them & others like them our attention when they pooh pooh people fighting against obvious racism, fascism, and kleptocracy etc etc yup <-- read the whole thing
@markhburton@mstdn.socialFascism Wrapped in Christmas Paper
How Anti-Migrant Politics Disfigures Christian Ethics: The Case of Badalona, Spain.
Alberto Garzón
https://agarzon.substack.com/p/fascism-wrapped-in-christmas-paper
@hex@kolektiva.socialThe paradox of Nazism being both the most capitalist thing possible, defining itself as explicitly anticommunist, while masquerading as "socialism" is difficult to resolve until you understand one thing: fascism pivots around antisemitism (and its extension, conspiratorial thinking).
I'm, of course, not talking about the redefinition of "antisemitism" into meaning any criticism of Israel but rather an anti-Jewish conspiracy narrative rooted in Roman Christianity.
This is critical to understand as MAGA fascism pivots between capitalist and pseudo-anticapitalist with Trump in the middle. Hitler did the same thing. Strasserism helped the Nazis gain power by pulling in the Left. In the Nazis case they killed the Stasserists pretty quickly. Now, I think we're seeing an attempt to make the opposite pivot happen in MAGA. But it's all the same thing.
Fascism can infinitely fail to address the needs of the people while dismissing it's own responsibility for creating the problem by maintaining a permanent enemy.
This is why it's important to understand antisemitism and how to fight it. It's especially important now because the apparatus of violence in Israel is itself a tool of global fascism, and we finally have an opportunity to dismantle the whole thing. But we have to be aware of how fascists can pivot around to block this.
I've been reading Safety Through Solidarity, and I think it's especially relevant at this time.
https://www.akpress.org/safety-through-solidarity.html
@cdarwin@c.imthe ten pillars of fascism
1.The mythic past: Fascists draw on a mythical past to justify a glorious future.
2.Propaganda: Propaganda in fascist politics often operates through inflammatory speech, stirring hostility and manipulating emotions, and displacing reasoned public debate with fear and division.
3.Anti-intellectual: Fascist politics attacks education, expertise, and language, weakening the tools necessary for informed public debate and leaving power and group ident…
@steve@s.yelvington.comIf only we had a name for countries that don't allow their citizens to leave....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/09/anti-fascism-mark-bray-rutgers-university
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nlAnd so it continues: US anti-fascism expert leaves country day after being blocked from flying to Spain.
No matter how many peace deals a Western leader states to broker, if you don't respect human rights you don't deserve the #NobelPeacePrice
#AntiFa
@servelan@newsie.socialAnti-queer fascism is coming around again - Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/10/04/anti-queer-fascism-is-coming-around-again/
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialA toot quoted a tweet earlier (can't find it now) highlighting that "antifa" may be cute for those associating with it, but it allows opponents to criticise without admitting to being fascists.
I agree. If the intention is to protest resurgence of fascism, then cute names that do not name the danger are counter-productive.
SWP had the right idea when they set up the "Anti Nazi League", which is now part of "Unite Against Fascism".
#1. Make …
@cdarwin@c.imMark Bray, a historian who has taught courses on anti-fascism at Rutgers university, was attempting to board a plane at Newark airport late on Wednesday when he was informed at the boarding gate that reservations for him and his family had been cancelled.
“‘Someone’ cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second,” Bray posted on Bluesky. “We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared’.”
Th…
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineSeems the FBI is not yet ready to take in surrendering forces from fictional terrorist organizations. No word on whether or not they could take surrendering Nazgul, Decepticons or Cobra from GI Joe either.
#USpol #antifacsist
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzKate Manne has an extract from Soraya Chemaly's new book "All We Want is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy":
"These are not precursors to “real” fascism—they are its gendered expression. What’s typically dismissed as background noise, “women’s issues,” is in fact the main event: a fascism rooted in gendered domination, made the more dangerous by how intimate, normalized, and structural it is."
#abortion #surveillance #fascism #women #SorayaChemaly #KateManne
@cdarwin@c.im18 October is an auspicious day to strike against authoritarianism
#nokings #nofacists
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