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fascism

  • 1/5/20

    A Historian Reflects on the Return of Fascism

    by Lawrence Wittner

    In the last decade or so, enormous headway has been made by movements and parties following the old fascist playbook, with rightwing demagogues trumpeting its key elements of virulent nationalism, racial and religious intolerance, and militarism. 

  • 9/8/19

    1933 May Be Closer than We Think

    by Frank Domurad

    Increasing cultural, social and political continuities between Weimar and America should give us serious concern in assessing the fate of these two democracies as part of an analogous historical phenomenon.

  • 4/19/19

    The Coming of American Fascism, 1920–1940

    by Chris Wright

    Michael Joseph Roberto's The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940 is particularly timely, as the old structures of American fascism have deepened in the last generation and colonized much of the world. 

  • 12/31/17

    It HAS Happened Here

    by Van Gosse

    After Trump, it’s pretty obvious that the certainty “it could never happen here” was foolish in hindsight.