Defeating Fascism

The story of a Norwegian schoolteacher's resistance during World War II has lessons for Americans today: It's time to tell the fascists 'no.'

Fascism won’t be defeated with reactive organizing. We need long-term strategy.

To resist the forces of fascism, we need an alternative approach to the crisis that’s based on a social justice agenda.

Perhaps the best known democratic socialist in Canada, the late Ed Broadbent discussed what he learned working in government coalitions and explained that the struggle for democratic socialism is a constant one.

In this video, I explore the historical ties between fascism and loneliness. Using studies and statistics and the work of political theorists such as Hanah A...

Many on the left were pointing out that the Democratic Party was dangerous, due to their mendacity and hollow promises. The voicing of this concern was not to enhance the reactionary right but to save any shreds that could keep fascism at bay. The concern was that we would land exactly where we are, whether in this election cycle or the next. It could have happened after any neo-liberal administration, and the left was warning of this very salient fact. A

On Episode #44 of the Book Talk Today podcast we are joined by Paul Mason.Paul is a journalist, writer and film-maker, actively engaged in the struggle for s...

Welcome back fellow antifascists! As always, we have a lot to cover in this column, especially important analysis and roundups of antifascist action. With so much to address, let’s dive right in! Trump and the Tech-Right Take Power The second Trump administration has officially begun and less than a month in, we are already in...

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Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat, an expert on the history of fascism and authoritarianism, answers questions from George and Team Takei.

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tom-nicholas-how-to-spot-a-potential-fascist An introduction to The Authoritarian Personality study. Timestamps: 0:00 Fascisticus Potentialicus 01:51 Introduction 05:07 Defining Fascism / Ur-Fascism 07:03 Antisemitism and Ethnocentrism 11:31 Fascism, Conservatism and Religion 16:09 The Authoritarian Personality 23:18 Conclusions This month's episode of What the Theory? is an introduction to the Authoritarian Personality study, carried out by T.W. Adorno (a key member of the "Frankfurt School" and central force in the development of Critical Theory), Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson and R. Nevitt Sanford at the University of California, Berkeley in 1950. Following the end of World War 2, these four psychologists were interested in finding out what had motivated so many supposedly ordinary citizens in Germany (and elsewhere in Europe) to participate in the awful designs of the fascist regimes that had taken hold there. Eventually, they laid out what they called The Authoritarian Personality, a set of personality traits which they argued might make some people more susceptible to fascist ideology than others. This is what they found out... Support the channel on Patreon at http://patreon.com/tomnicholas If you've enjoyed this video and would like to see more including my What The Theory? series in which I provide some snappy introductions to key theories in the humanities as well as video essays and more then do consider subscribing. Thanks for watching! Twitter: http://twitter.com/tom_nicholas Instagram: http://instagram.com/tomnicholaswtf Patreon: http://patreon.com/tomnicholas Website: http://www.tomnicholas.com/ #Fascism #Authoritarianism #FrankfurtSchool

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