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Fascism Field Notes Journals Social Justice

Scurvy October 30, 2022November 5, 2022 Adam Tooze, Akela Lacy, American fascism, Andy Rowell, anti-trans pogrom, anticapitalism, anticommunism, antifascism, Augusto Pinochet, Big Oil, CA4, capitalism, Capitalist Propaganda, CC3, Chevron, Climate Crisis, climate justice, climate science denial, cold war, conspiracy theory, corporate media, critical race theory, David Olusoga, FA1, fascism, fascist propaganda, German Fascism, Godwin's Law Is Suspended, GOP, Hannah Arendt, Hitler, independent media, JA5, January 6th, Jason Stanley, Jean-paul Sartre, Jim Crow, Journal, Justice, Larry Krasner, legal fascism, Media, Mike Worth, MP6, Nazi Germany, Nazi Party, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, Origins Of Totalitarianism, Paul Von Hindenburg, pig empire, Post-truth Society, progressive prosecutors, Propaganda, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, Republican Party, Sam Knight, SCOTUS, ST2, stochastic terrorism, The Big Lie, The Intercept, The Kaisers Holocaust, The Wages of Destruction, The War on Sharing, Third Reich, Trumpism, TWoS, Umberto Eco, Understanding Fascism, US Midterm Elections, US politics, Wall Street, World War II

Field Notes: It Is Happening Again

It’s the weekend and our host Scurvy is back with Field Notes; all the best of Nina Illingworth’s anticapitalist social media writing from around the web.

Essays Fascism media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 18, 2020November 5, 2022 21st century fascism, Aimee Terese, Amerikan Musik, Angela Nagle, anticommunism, Caitlin Johnstone, contrarian left, crypto fascism, distortions, Donald Trump, Downmarket Mussolini, Essays, FA1, fake populism, Fantastic Lies, fascism, gaslighting, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, GOP is fascist, Hitler, independent media, Jason Stanley, Jim Crow fascism, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Lee Fang, left right alliance, left wing theory, liberalism empowers fascism, lie, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Masha Gessen, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, Media, Mike Tracey, MP6, Mussolini, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, Op-Ed, Palmer Raids, Palooka Joe, Politics, reactionary thought, Red Scare podcast, Republican Party, right wing populism, Ron Paul libertarians, skeptics, social media, ST2, Stupidpol, the Red Scare, Theory, Timothy Snyder, Trump Coup, Trump is a fascist, Trump isn't Hitler but so what?, Trumpism is fascism, woke neoliberalism, Zaid Jilani

‘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.

Essays Fascism Rants Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth December 14, 2020November 17, 2022 a fascism primer, a Marxist analysis of fascism, Alt Right, anticommunism, Benito Mussolini, Blackshirts and Reds, Bolsonaro, Books, class, class war, colonialism, contrarian left, David Olusoga, definition of fascism, Donald Trump, Essays, Eternal Fascism, FA1, fascism, fascist politics, Frantz Fanon, Glenn Greenwald has no idea what fascism is, Glenn Greenwald is a not left wing, How Fascism Works, JA5, Jason Stanley, Jim Crow, keyboard warrior, left wing theory, Leon Trotsky, Marxism, Masha Gessen, Media, Michael Parenti, Modi, mythic past, nativism, News, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, online right, Politics, Racism, Rants, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Paxton, Social Darwinism, ST2, The Anatomy of Fascism, Theory, Timothy Snyder, trolls, Trumpism is fascism, Umberto Eco, Ur Fascism, volk, What is Fascism, white nationalism

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…

Books Can't You Read Fascism socialism

NinaIllingworth November 26, 2020November 5, 2022 American imperialism, anticapitalism, anticommunism, Blackshirts and Reds, blog, Book Blog, Books, capitalism, capitalism breeds fascism, capitalist triumphalism, classic socialist books, communism, FA1, Fall of Communism, fascism, great Marxist thinkers, History, Imperialism, left wing theory, liberal capitalism, liberalism, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Marxist historical analysis, Michael Parenti, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Parenti over Chomsky, PDF, Pig Empire History, Politics, rational fascism, Reviews, Socialism, socialist history, ST2, Theory, unipolar power, WD7

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.

Essays Fascism Police State Politics

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2020November 5, 2022 1994 crime bill, 1st amendment rights, against the left, Amerikan Musik, anarchists, Andrew Jackson, anticommunism, antifa, antifascists, Black Lives Matter, CA4, CC3, Charlie Dent, Cold War Pig Empire fascism, conspiracy theory, cult, DoJ, Donald Trump, Downmarket Mussolini, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascists, First They Came, George Orwell, Homeland Security, informal writing, JA5, Joe Biden, Journals, Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris is a cop, liberals prefer fascism to sharing, Martin Niemöller, Mass incarceration, MP6, murderpigs, neoliberal police state, neoliberalism, neonazi, Never Trump Republicans, Newspeak, Nina Illingworth, Opinion, panopticon, police state, police violence, Politics, QAnon, reactionaries, rigged election, right wing nutjob, Settle for Biden, ST2, the 2020 presidential election is rigged, The Assassination Of Patrice Lumumba, tough on crime, Trump and Nixon Law and Order campaign, Trump is a Nazi, Trump will do a fascist coup, Trumpism is fascism, Vichy Democrats, Weimar Dems, Weimar Republic, white nationalism, white supremacists

Thought-Crimes and Appeasement

A medium length journal on what it means for the elite liberal establishment to turn its back on the left and embrace the Trumpian idea that “antifa” are the problem; spoiler, it sure ain’t good.

Essays Fascism Patreon socialism

NinaIllingworth June 20, 2019November 5, 2022 a history of fascism in America, American Bund, American history, American left, Amerikan Musik, anticommunism, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, civility politics, Clintonism, COINTELPRO, cold war, contrarian left, Deep Dives, Democrat fascist enablers, Democratic Socialists, Democrats, Donald Trump, Encampments, Essays, FA1, fake resistance, far right, fascism, FDR, FDR liberals, George Wallace, GOP, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, LBJ, liberalism, liberalism enables fascism, McCarthyism, neoliberal, neoliberalism breeds fascism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, paleoconservatism, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Political Theory, Politics, Pork Reich, radical left, reactionary thought, Reaganism, Republican, Republican Party, rich fascists, Richard Nixon, right wing populism, right wing terrorism, Russiagate, Socialism, the American Tea Party, The Resistance, Theory, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, united front against fascism, Volkish populism, War on Terror, WD7, white nationalism

Essay: “Encampments” on my Free Patreon Blog

A deep dive essay about the importance of a united antifascist front even in the face of resistance and neoliberal co-opting operations on my free Patron Blog.

Books Essays media Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth May 31, 2019November 5, 2022 anticommunism, antifascism, austerity, Books, CA4, Canada, capitalism, Chris Hedges, Citizen's United, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, class war, climate catastrophe, COINTELPRO, cold war, corruption, Deep Dives, democratic rights, Essays, FA1, fascism, FBI, Glenn Greenwald, Greece, Ibram X Kendi, inverted totalitarianism, Jane Mayer, Jim Crow, lobbying, Margin Notes, mass surveillance, Media, Michelle Alexander, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, plutocrats, quotations, Quotes, Red Scare, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, the Palmer Raids, UK, Wages of Rebellion, War on Terror, Yanis Varoufakis

Margin Notes: Wages of Rebellion and the Inversion Perversion in the Pig Empire

A deep look at the way the underlying logic behind our rights and freedoms are inverted to help the wealthy few at the expense of the many – featuring a quotation from “Wages of Rebellion” by Chris Hedges.