Fascism 101 (aka Right Wing Disinformation not Left)

Fascism 101 (aka Right Wing Disinformation not Left)

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The Red Nation Podcast - Fascism, imperialism, and the law w/ Nina Farnia
The Red Nation Podcast - Fascism, imperialism, and the law w/ Nina Farnia
TRN Podcast host Nick Estes is joined by legal scholar Nina Farnia (@NinaFarnia) to discuss America's supposed slide into oligarchic fascism, what remains of the Western "rules-based order," and how the war in Ukraine and the Gaza holocaust have enriched the US ruling class. Check out her article, "Imperialism in
·therednation.org·
The Red Nation Podcast - Fascism, imperialism, and the law w/ Nina Farnia
What If It Is Fascism?
What If It Is Fascism?
Discussions of whether Trumpism is fascist often lose sight of the political stakes of the issue. But like Italian and German fascism, MAGA reflects a political system failing to address capitalist crisis.
But to deny that Trumpism is a contemporary form of fascism one must put forward at least one of those plausible definitions and provide evidence of how MAGA fails to fit. This Bessner does not do.
a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
I think it’s short a few key elements: class dynamics in place of the weaker sociological notion of “elites”; the role of the charismatic, all-knowing leader; and the destruction, once in power, of the helping parts of the state apparatus while bulking up the repressive apparatus.
For instance, in Italy in the 1920s and Germany in the 1930s there was a polarized, blocked democracy in which neither the traditional center-left nor center-right coalition forces were able to vanquish the other. This led to an inability to decisively address the most important challenges afflicting the society through the usual political mechanisms.
Key to fascism is the blockage, not the particular time- and place-bound issues. Fascism represents a breakthrough solution (in the wrong direction, toward the most reactionary sectors of capital) to resolve fundamental issues around capitalist development. In Italy, fascism was a solution to the modernization of the rural economy; in Germany, a response to the crushing burden of war debt; and here in the United States, the antiquated political structures bequeathed by the founders’ concessions to the slavocracy, and the death grip of fossil fuel capital over our planet’s future.
for advocates of the American fascism thesis, these developments all prove that there’s an unbroken line of fascism stretching back to the nation’s founding.” I don’t know to whom he is ascribing this overreaching position; he doesn’t identify anyone. Scholars who argue for fascist precedents in American history, like the rise of the first KKK during Reconstruction, are pretty careful to avoid sweeping statements of this nature.
Trump and especially his movement — because that’s one of the key ingredients of the phenomenon — qualify. What convinced Paxton to publicly change his mind? The January 2021 insurrection sealed the deal for him; he no longer thought that academic quibbling about labels or reservations based on popular usage outweighed the danger of the reality.
While dismissing “extreme far-right ideology” as too baggy a definition, nowhere does Bessner offer a replacement of his own or someone else’s that he agrees with. Instead, he seemingly views fascism mostly as a misguided analogy for three reasons: its analogs are Italy and Germany; it is a foreign ideology only; and because Trumpism is American born and bred, therefore it can’t be fascism. These arguments are tautological and unconvincing. "Fascism represents a breakthrough solution to resolve fundamental issues around capitalist development."
Because the “structures, processes, discourses and patterns” show us the pathways history can take — not so we can peer into our crystal balls and foretell the precise duplication of past events in the present, but so that we can master the critical capacity to see what the man behind the curtain is attempting to put over on us and stop it from happening.
Throughout the article Bessner sets up one straw man after another and knocks them down. He tells us, “The powers that Trump is deploying, and the laws and theories that he is building his attempt to reshape the US state and society upon, are not fascist. They are American…” This assumption, that “fascism” and “American” are nonoverlapping categories, is one Bessner, at no point, proves or even argues for. To the contrary, my argument is that they combine: American fascism.
·jacobin.com·
What If It Is Fascism?
The authoritarian syndrome as an attempt to restore control and its mediating role in anti‐Semitism and xenophobia in Germany - Dilling - 2025 - Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy - Wiley Online Library
The authoritarian syndrome as an attempt to restore control and its mediating role in anti‐Semitism and xenophobia in Germany - Dilling - 2025 - Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy - Wiley Online Library
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The authoritarian syndrome as an attempt to restore control and its mediating role in anti‐Semitism and xenophobia in Germany - Dilling - 2025 - Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy - Wiley Online Library
'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult' - Raw Story
'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult' - Raw Story
MAGA Republicans have been attacking Robert Reich as a “coastal elitist” in response to an August 23 tweet in which the liberal economist, UC Berkeley professor and former secretary of labor in the Clinton Administration described far-right Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a “fascist.” Reich’s MAGA crit...
·rawstory.com·
'The dictionary definition of fascism': Conservative columnist condemns Donald Trump's MAGA 'cult' - Raw Story
The myths of Ayn Rand pose real threats to democracy
The myths of Ayn Rand pose real threats to democracy
Coinbase's plan to go public last April highlights a troubling trend among tech companies: Its founding team will maintain voting control, making it mostly immune to the wishes of outside investors.The best-known U.S. cryptocurrency exchange is doing this by creating two classes of shares. One class...
·alternet.org·
The myths of Ayn Rand pose real threats to democracy
Heritage Foundation - DeSmog
Heritage Foundation - DeSmog
Heritage Foundation Background The Heritage Foundation is a conservative think tank founded in 1973 by Paul Weyrich to “formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.” The Heritage Foundation has been a […]
·desmog.com·
Heritage Foundation - DeSmog
Far-Right Extremist Groups
Far-Right Extremist Groups
Far-right, white supremacist, and ethno-nationalist movements in Europe and the United States continue to thrive, propagating racism, hatred, and violence.
·counterextremism.com·
Far-Right Extremist Groups
Fardels Bear
Fardels Bear
A History of the Alt-Right
·altrightorigins.com·
Fardels Bear
Alternative Influence
Alternative Influence
Data & Society advances public understanding of the social implications of data-centric technologies and automation.
·datasociety.net·
Alternative Influence
From the science community on Reddit: Support for Trump’s MAGA agenda is strongly influenced by right-wing authoritarianism. White women displayed levels of support for the MAGA agenda and authoritarian beliefs that closely resembled those of white men, while women of color were consistently the least supportive and least authoritarian.
From the science community on Reddit: Support for Trump’s MAGA agenda is strongly influenced by right-wing authoritarianism. White women displayed levels of support for the MAGA agenda and authoritarian beliefs that closely resembled those of white men, while women of color were consistently the least supportive and least authoritarian.
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·reddit.com·
From the science community on Reddit: Support for Trump’s MAGA agenda is strongly influenced by right-wing authoritarianism. White women displayed levels of support for the MAGA agenda and authoritarian beliefs that closely resembled those of white men, while women of color were consistently the least supportive and least authoritarian.
Fascists will waste your time.
Fascists will waste your time.
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