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

Picture of a wealthy capitalist it top hat and tails, dancing romantically with a skeletal soldier holding a reaper's scythe.

Books Capitalism Quotes Theory

NinaIllingworth August 29, 2023 2008 Financial Crisis, antifascism, Book Blog, Books, CA4, capitalism, Climate Crisis, David Graeber, Debt, FA1, fascism, genocide, geohell, History, mutual aid, neoliberalism, oligarchy, Propaganda, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, revolution, Socialism, solidarity, ST2, The War on Sharing, Theory

Quickshot Quotation: Debt and Rebirth

Building off a Graeber quote from Debt, Nina briefly touches on the war on sharing, the idea killing machine, and why we discuss alternatives to capitalism.

Books Fascism Reviews Theory

NinaIllingworth November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, antifascist theory, book review, Bookish Bits, Books, Brazil, capitalism births fascism, capitalist ideology, capitalist realism, contemporary fascism, Cultural Marxism, Democracy, Donald Trump, eliminationism, FA1, fascism, Fascist Italy, fascist politics, faux democracy, Hannah Arendt, history of fascism, Hitler, How Fascism Works, India, Jair Bolsonaro, Jason Stanley, Joe Biden, Leon Trotsky, liberal antifascism, liberal democracies, Mussolini, Narendra Modi, Nazi Germany, neo fascism, Nina Illingworth, Pork Reich, Propaganda, reactionary thought, Reviews, semi fascism, ST2, Theodor Adorno, Theory, Umberto Eco, United States, Weimar America

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.

Books Fascism Politics Reviews

NinaIllingworth November 10, 2022 Amerikan Musik, Andy Campbell, antifa, antifascism, Book Blog, Bookish Bits, Books, chicken coup, corporate media, crowdfunded fascism, dark money, Donald Trump, Enrique Tarrio, FA1, fascism, fascism and antifascism are NOT the same, fascist psyop, fascist street gangs, Gavin McInnes, GOP, January 6th, January 6th coup attempt, Media, Mike Nordean, MP6, Nina Illingworth, political violence, Politics, Pork Reich, Portland, Proud Boys, Proud of Our Boy, Republicans, Reviews, right wing terrorism, Roger Stone, ST2, Theory, Trumpism, We Are Proud Boys

Bookish Bits: Proud of Our Boy

Nina reviews “We Are Proud Boys” by Andy Campbell and finds it to be a refreshing change from mainstream “both-sides” coverage of fascist political violence.

Books FotB socialism Theory Walker

NinaIllingworth October 20, 2021November 5, 2022 a better way to live, anarchism, anarchist literature, anarchist theory, anti-Indigenous bigotry, anticapitalism, antifascism, Book Blog, book review, Bookish Bits, Books, capitalism, Charles Darwin, Chris Walker, class analysis, class war, cooperation, Darwinism, David Graeber, direct democracy, evolution, fascism, FotB, Friends of the Blog, Herbert Spence, JA5, Karl Marx, Kropotkin, labor class analysis, labor class reading, left wing theory, Lewis Henry Morgan, Malthusian violence, mutual aid, Mutual Aid: A Factor Of Evolution, peasant politics, Petr Kropotkin, Racism, religion, Social Darwinism, Socialism, ST2, Theory, Thomas Huxley, Twin Rabbit, Walker, working together

Evolving Together: Why You Should Read Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid by Chris Walker

Today we welcome back Chris Walker, whose book review encourages us to explore reading leftist theory as an evolution; with an assist from Petr Kropotkin.

Books Can't You Read Fascism Reviews War

NinaIllingworth October 18, 2021November 5, 2022 9/11, Afghanistan War, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Barack Obama, Bill Barr, Black Lives Matter, Book Blog, book review, Bookish Bits, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, Civil Rights, colonialism, Democracy, Dick Cheney, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, forever war, George W Bush, GOP, Imperialism, Iraq War, Islamophobia, January 6th coup attempt, Michael Reinoehl, National Security State, nativism, neoliberalism breeds fascism, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patriot Act, police state, Racism, reign of terror, Republican, Reviews, Richard Spencer, Security Industrial Complex, Spencer Ackerman, ST2, Tom Cotton, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, war, War on Terror, WD7, white supremacy

Barbarism Starts at Home on Can’t You Read

Nina reviews Spencer Ackerman’s “Reign of Terror” and finds a good book, that could have been so much more. Check out the new Bookish Bits on Can’t You Read.

Blog Books Can't You Read Fascism Reviews

NinaIllingworth April 18, 2021November 17, 2022 American Civil War, American history, anti-brown racism, anti-Mexican racism, Book Blog, book review, Books, Can't You Read, colonialism, crackers, Donald Trump, ecofascism, exploitation, FA1, fascism, Frederick Jackson Turner, genocide, Greg Grandin, History, immigration, Imperialism, JA5, Jim Crow, Latin America, manifest destiny, Mass incarceration, Migrant Rights, migrants, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, police state, Politics, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, settler colonialism, slavery, ST2, the American Revolution, the border, the border wall, The End of the Myth, the Frontier Myth, the Frontier Thesis, the New Forever War, the thirteen colonies, the War On Terror, Trump's wall, Trumpism, WD7, white supremacy, whiteness

Book Blog: The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin

Book Blog featuring a review & analysis of Greg Grandin’s “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” on Can’t You Read.

Fascism Personal Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth February 21, 2021November 5, 2022 A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Amerikan Musik, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, antifascism, Boogaloo Boys, Books, Canada in the World, class reductionism, class war, communism, contrarian left, David Harvey, democratic socialism, extremely online wankers, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascism is a bourgeoisie plot, fascism is about destroying the labor class, fascism is antisocialist, Gerald Horne, Glenn Greenwald, informal writing, JA5, Jimmy Dore, Journals, left right alliance, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, online discourse, Pacifism As Pathology, personal, reactionary thought, revolution, revolutionary praxis, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Second Tier Faux Left Influencers, settler colonialism, Site Updates, social media, Socialism, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Tyler Shipley, Ward Churchill, whiteness, writing schedule

Facebook Update: Alive, Antifascist, and Irritable

A brief update on how I’m doing, what I’m reading, and why your friends online are kind of trash.

Media Madness Neoliberalism Videos War

NinaIllingworth December 23, 2020November 5, 2022 banks, blog, Books, books you should read, CA4, capitalism, capitalism and imperialism, economic imperialism, Economics, film sessions, foreign policy, forever war, global finance, IMF, Imperialism, imperialism is a profit making enterprise, informal writing, international law, international lending, John Perkins, Media Madness, Monroe Doctrine, neoliberalism, New Confessions of An Economic Hitman, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Politics, predatory loans, Reviews, soft power, Tedx Talk, the debt trap, the New Forever War, the peace of a tyrant, The Washington Consensus, US global superpower, Video, Wall Street, war, war as a business model, War is a Racket, WD7, World Bank, Youtube

Film Sessions: The Devil Walks in Broad Daylight

In this December 2020 Film Sessions post we’re looking at a Tedx Talk by John Perkins, author of (New) Confessions of an Economic Hitman, over on Media Madness.

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.

Books Can't You Read Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth November 21, 2020November 17, 2022 a Marxist analysis of fascism, ACAB, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, blog, Book Blog, Books, books about fascism, capitalism, capitalism breeds fascism, class war, communism, communist writing, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, Fascism What It Is and How to Fight It, great books, great Marxist thinkers, Hooverism, how to fight fascism, labor, labor class, left wing theory, Leon Trotsky, Leon Trotsky quotes, liberal democracies, Marxism, Marxist Theory, Marxist writing, neoliberal authoritarianism, neoliberalism breeds fascism, PDF, police state, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Socialism, socialist writing, ST2, the fascist moment, Theory, Trotsky quotes, Trumpism

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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