fascism

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  4/26/2022
  

  Women's Rights are a Casualty of Democratic Backsliding

  Historian Anne Wingenter and law professor Erica Chenoweth discuss the relationship between fascism and patriarchy and the way that women's rights are a signal of the health of democracy. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  4/26/2022
  

  Guernica Was a Dress Rehearsal for Horrors to Come

  Journalist George Lowther Steer broke the news that the German Luftwaffe had provided the aerial destruction of the town, in what became a training ground for future Nazi attacks. 

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• SOURCE: World Socialist Website
  4/25/2022
  

  World Socialist Website: Tim Snyder Changes Conclusions on Ukrainian Fascism

  Have influential historians of Eastern European nationalism and antisemitism softened their assessment of Ukrainian nationalism because of the Russian invasion? 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  4/25/2022
  

  False Accusations of "Fascism" at Democrats, Like Those Biden Faces, are Nothing New

  by Jon Marshall

  Glenn Beck's accusation that Biden is leading a global elite cabal of fascists doesn't have to make sense when it spreads around the world on social media and cable TV. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/17/2022
  

  Now is the Time to Revisit Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism

  by Anne Applebaum

  The political and economic supports for stability and prosperity in the developed world are more precarious than ever; the revival of authoritarianism that Arendt predicted may be at hand, making her work more vital than ever. 

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• 3/6/2022
  

  The Would-Be Czar's Dark Prophet

  by Ed Simon

  Vladimir Putin takes seriously the anti-liberal and neo-czarist philosophies of Aleksandr Dugin. Anyone who opposes his expansionist agenda must as well. 

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• SOURCE: New Statesman
  3/3/2022
  

  Sanctions are an Economic Weapon. Targeting Matters

  by Nicholas Mulder

  The Biden approach shows a reframing of economic sanctions from being a deterrent to being a non-military weapon of war. This has happened before, and history shows that sanctions against an aggressor nation can be expected to fail unless they are paired with aid to Ukraine.

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• SOURCE: People's World
  2/14/2022
  

  Historians Urge Stronger Anti-Fascist Commitment or US Risks Following Weimar Germany

  by Berry Craig

  The coalition assembled by Donald Trump includes enough white nationalists, violent extremists, and anti-democracy ideologues that the Biden administration's faith in institutional protections may be insufficient to contain it through normal means. 

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• SOURCE: Truthout
  1/28/2022
  

  Fascism's "Legal Phase" is Here, and the Threat is Real

  by William Horne

  The authoritarian right has identified the institutional weak points in American institutions and is preparing to exploit them to seize power and excuse political violence. This happened before, with Jim Crow the result. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/20/2022
  

  Trump's NPR Interview Shows the Hazard of Giving Him Airtime

  by Federico Finchelstein

  The history of fascism shows that it's a mistake for the news media to treat propagandists as honest actors. They'll exploit the free press to promote their ideas, but crush independent journalism at the first opportunity.

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  1/9/2022
  

  Tim Snyder: Degraded Integrity of Elections Threatens Democracy

  “Democracy needs history, because history teaches you about your mistakes.”

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• SOURCE: AlterNet
  12/8/2021
  

  Thomas Zimmer: One-Party Theocratic Authoritarian Takeover is a Real Risk

  "I think the idea that Democrats could get the support of white conservative voters by focusing on governing well, by emphasizing “pocketbook issues,” underestimates the depth of the ideological struggle that we are witnessing."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/13/2021
  

  Tim Snyder: "It Turns Out People Really Like Democracy"

  “America first” and “enemies of the people” are words that are consciously applied by people who wish to destroy democracy. If people don’t know how those words have been applied in the past, then that is dangerous.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/17/2021
  

  Can We Learn from Previous Collapses of Democracy?

  by Katje Hoyer

  The first German democracy, which was undone with the beginning of the first world war, is a cautionary tale of the potential of nationalism to undo democratic institutions.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  9/14/2021
  

  The Melting of the American Mind: Internet Pop Psychology and the Authoritarian Personality

  by Maya Vinokour

  The internet and social media have worked to normalize and validate authoritarian and illiberal worldviews, making the mindset that baffled thinkers like Theodor Adorno in 1947 commonplace today. 

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• 8/29/2021
  

  Richard J. Evans on Fascism, Today's Right, and Historical Truth

  by Aaron J. Leonard

  "Honest historians know they have to abandon their arguments when the evidence turns out to disprove them; dishonest historians and conspiracy theorists bend the evidence to fit the argument."

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/5/2021
  

  Why Tucker Carlson went to Hungary

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Tucker Carlson's PR visit to Orban's Hungary echoes the tribute paid by leaders of the American right to racist regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa in the 1970s, and reflect the ongoing fantasy of the right to rule free of constraints of law and democratic norms. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/3/2021
  

  New Book of Family History Recreates the Anti-Nazi Resistance in Germany

  Rebecca Donner, great-great-neice of Mildred Harnack, an American-born woman executed in 1943 for anti-Nazi activity in Germany, has written a book of family history that also shows the melting away of German delusions about Hitler's intentions and power. 

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• SOURCE: Heather Cox Richardson
  8/2/2021
  

  Letters from an American: The Rising Appeal of Hungary on the US Right

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Tucker Carlson's fawning visit to Viktor Orban's Hungary, at a time when the right is mobilizing to subvert future American elections, is an ominous signal of the growing contempt for democracy on the right. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/13/2021
  

  David Frum: There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming

  "Why do people sign up with the putschists after the putsch has failed? They’re betting that the failed putsch is not the past—it’s the future."