Film Sessions: “Where Do We Go From Here?”
Trump’s ouster doesn’t signal the end of fascism, but rather the beginning of a new antifascist struggle. A new video, analysis and links on Media Madness.
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Fascism
Counting Coup on Can’t You Read
Over on Can’t You Read, Nina closes the Trump-era chapter of American Fascism by reciting her works and counting coup on faux-left contrarians and numpties.
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‘The Devil You Know? A Response to Recent Revisionist History From the Contrarian “Left”
An op-ed aggressively refuting the contrarian faux-left position that calling Trump a fascist is some sort of liberal psyop designed to distract the left.
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How to (Make a Troll) Disappear Completely: A Primer on Americanized Fascism
“Well how do *you* define fascism then?” Put your mouth guard in princess because I’m done playing around…
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American Fascism and Networks of Power on Can’t You Read
A link to a short essay on Can’t You Read about why fascism will survive Trump; includes a recommended reading article showing fascist power networks in action during the Covid-19 anti-lockdown protests.
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Film Sessions: The Wellspring and the Current with Some More News
A December 2020 Film Session featuring Some More News about why America has always been intimate with the fascist backlash against racial and social progress.
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November Small Ball Update
A (now redundant) roundup of all of Nina’s smaller posts in October and November; including Facebook Journal and Can’t You Read links we’ve never shared until now on ninaillingworth.com.
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Book Blog: Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti
A longer Book Blog talking about why you should read Michael Parenti’s Blackshirts and Reds (or really any book he has written) over on Can’t You Read.
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No Forward Progress on Can’t You Read (Link)
“The Trump coup is a flop, twitchy contrarians are trying to convince you it was never fascism in the first place and a significant portion of America is about to take its eyes off the rise of a violent, reactionary fascist movement spreading across the entire Pig Empire. That’s a huge mistake according to our intrepid analyst.
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Opening Pandora’s Box on Can’t You Read (Link)
With Trump’s coup seemingly ground to a halt, it’s time to celebrate the end of the fascist moment – isn’t it? Not so fast says analyst Nina Illingworth. By combining some brief observations on the seemingly-doomed Trumpist “chicken coup,” and a link to a vitally important article by Indi Samarajiva about why even a failed reactionary coup is a disaster for a society that calls itself a democracy, our intrepid author debunks the still quite dangerous idea that we’ve survived the Swine Emperor and everything is going to go back to normal soon.
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Book Blog “Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It” by Leon Trotsky
A short Book Blog on Can’t You Read featuring Leon Trotsky quotes, a blurb about Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It, and a link to read the book.
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