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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

Analysis Fascism media Social Justice

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Nina-Bytes: Call and Response

Today we’re using two recent articles to analyze the obvious connection between fascist anti-LGBTQ rhetoric in US politics and reactionary stochastic terrorism.

Books Fascism Reviews Theory

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Bookish Bits: Birdwatching With Liberal Antifascism

In this week’s Bookish Bits, Nina gets around to reviewing a delightful, but still extremely frustrating mainstream liberal analysis of modern fascist politics.

Blog Fascism Social Justice Theory

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Mini-Theory Blog: Intended Purpose

Nina dispenses with the nonsensical idea that fascist politicians don’t mean to incite stochastic terrorism against the marginalized people they demonize.

Blog Fascism Politics Theory

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Mini-Theory Blog: A Premature Funeral for Fascism

Presuming that middling election results will make fascists stop doing fascist politics, proves our establishment doesn’t understand how fascism works at all.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Politics

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Nina-Bytes: Things Left Unsaid

You can learn a lot by listening to what American politicians talk about during elections; but sometimes, what they won’t talk about reveals a whole lot more.

Blog Fascism Social Justice Theory

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Mini-Theory Blog: Primary Front

Today’s Instagram Mini-Theory Blog features a few words on why democracy can lose at the ballot box, but that’s not where fascism wins.

Blog Fascism Politics Rec Reads

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Recommended Reading: Claxon Call

While a liberal establishment that feels comfortable policing trans bodies exhales, fascists that did get reelected are pushing ahead with an anti-trans pogrom.

Blog Fascism media Theory

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Mini-Theory Blog: Reactionary Genesis

In today’s Mini Theory Blog, we’re talking about why an election isn’t the end of American fascism so long as the media helps it regenerate and thrive.

Blog Capitalism Labor Rec Reads

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Recommended Reading: The Good Old Days

In today’s Recommended Reading we’re talking about a horrifying modern child labor case, and what it can tell us about politics in the capitalist Pig Empire.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Politics

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Nina-Bytes: Impact Statement

In Nina-Bytes we’re looking at yet another US government report that demonstrates our leaders are trying to kill us for capitalism in the face of climate crisis

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Quotes

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Quickshot Quotations: Sacrifice and Greed

Using a commonly misattributed quote from Alanis Obomsawin, Nina talks about why capitalist ideology itself is preventing us from stopping climate catastrophe.