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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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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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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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Book Blog: Anarcho-Syndicalism Theory & Practice

A very brief Book Blog on Can’t You Read featuring a recommendation and link to Rudolf Rocker’s “Anarcho-Syndicalism Theory and Practice.”

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Link: On the Rule of Capital, Climate Crisis & the Rise of Fascism in the Pig Empire

Link to a new salon discussion style essay by Nina Illingworth on the connection between the absolute rule of capital, impending climate catastrophe and the rise of fascism across much of the Pig Empire; presented on her Journal/Image Blog at Can’t You Read.

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Can’t You Read: Advice to the Young Leftist

A long, very informal journal on Can’t You Read warning young leftists about the war on sharing, and encouraging them to take heart in our darkest hours.

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On Absolute Power, Nixonian Machinations & Trump’s Fascist Fulminations

A short essay examining two lines of argument emerging from Trump’s most recent unhinged coronavirus press conference and the cat and mouse game he’s playing with Dr. Fauci in order to open up the economy no matter how many people it kills.

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Link: The Skinny – Crisis And Class War, April 2020

Link to Nina’s latest collection of social media essays. In this edition: economic segregation, the importance of organizing around class and why the 2020 Dem Party nomination contest is already illegitimate.

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Link: On Bernie Sanders, Polling and Perception – New Essay

A link to my latest essay on Patreon in which I look at the reasons Bernie Sanders is going to drastically outperform the polls in the 2020 Democratic Party nomination contest.

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The Skinny: a Liberal Lexicon

A collection of informal journal writing; this time we’re talking about liberalism and the American political imagination.

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Blog: Manufacturing A Primary Narrative

A short blog analyzing the media’s false narrative about Joe Biden that turned out to be right, and also wrong, once the primaries started. It’s complicated.

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