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

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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.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Politics

NinaIllingworth August 28, 2023August 27, 2023 Alexander Cooley, analysis, banking, billionaires, blog, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, Cory Doctorow, dark money, Finance, John Heathershaw, kleptocracy, lobby groups, money laundering, MP6, Nina-Bytes, oligarchy, philanthropy, pig empire, Pluralistic, Politics, Propaganda, public relations, Ricard Soares de Oliveira, Second Gilded Age, SuperPAC, think tanks, transnational, TUSN

Nina-Bytes: Bagmen for the Transnational Oligarchy

Nina highlights the open structures of power the uber rich use to control our society in broad daylight with the help of a Cory Doctorow article about bagmen.

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Capitalism Climate Crisis Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth August 25, 2023August 25, 2023 antifascism, billionaires, CA4, capitalism, class war, Climate Crisis, colonialism, corporate power, Covid, Eugenics, extractivism, FA1, fascism, fossil fuels, funding fascism, global boiling, Malthusianism, Mini Theory Blog, oil, pandemic, pig empire, Propaganda, ruling class, ST2, the fascist creep, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Let’s Start at the End

In order to understand the news in hellworld, you first have to understand why rising fascism, climate crisis, and Covid eugenics are all the same problem.

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Analysis Fascism media Social Justice

NinaIllingworth August 24, 2023 analysis, anti-trans pogrom, Assigned Media, Azeen Ghorayshi, Evan Urquhart, FA1, fascism, gender affirming therapy, Jamie Reed, LGBTQ, Media, MP6, New York Times, Nina-Bytes, NYT, Politics, Propaganda, protect trans kids, Social Justice, TERFs, trans panic, trans rights, transphobia in media

Nina-Bytes: Selling the Pogroms

Nina examines an important article by Evan Urquhart at Assigned to help illustrate how mainstream media provides ideological justification for a trans pogrom.

Blog Capitalism Pandemic Theory

NinaIllingworth December 14, 2022 anti lockdown protests, anti-fascism, anti-vax death cult, anticapitalism, blog, capitalism, Charles Koch, China, Covid 19, Covid and capitalism, COVID disinformation, Covid eugenics, Covid is not over, dark money, Eugenics, fascism, fascist ideology, herd immunity is fake, high church of capitalism, IMTB, instagram, killing grandma for profit, Koch network, Kochtopus, labor rights, Mini Theory Blog, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new cold war, Nina Illingworth, pandemic, paying fascists to reopen the economy, pig empire, profits over people, Propaganda, QAnon, Socialism, Theory

Mini-Theory Blog: Capitalism, Covid, and the Fascist Creep

The biggest Covid story the media isn’t reporting is the fact that right wing billionaires are funding the campaign to pretend it’s over, for their own profit.

Essays Fascism Rec Reads Social Justice

NinaIllingworth December 5, 2022December 5, 2022 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Andrew Anglin, Andy Ngo, anti-LGBTQ violence, anti-trans pogrom, anti-trans propaganda, antifascism, antisemitism, Chad Loder, Crimethinc, Daily Stormer, eliminationism, Elon Musk, Essays, FA1, far right, far right online extremism, fascism, hate speech, James Lindsay, Jordan Peterson, Kanye West, Media, Micah Lee, MP6, neonazi, Nikki McCann Ramirez, Nina Illingworth, online fascism, Pork Reich, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Robert Mackey, Roger Stone, Rolling Stone, Ron DeSantis, Social Justice, social media, The Intercept, Twitter, Weimar America, white supremacy, Ye

Recommended Reading: Trip Line

In today’s Recommended Reading, Nina circles back to talk about why pretending Musk isn’t turning Twitter into a fascist paradise is a form of collaboration.

Decolonization Essays Fascism Police State

NinaIllingworth December 1, 2022January 9, 2023 abolition, American Gestapo, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Anna Cathrine-Brigida, antifascism, bipartisan, bipartisan white supremacy, Border Patrol, borders are imperialism, By Any Other Name, CA4, colonialism, Common Dreams, concentration camps, decolonization, Donald Trump, Essays, FA1, family separation policy, fascism, genocide, human rights, ICE, injustice, JA5, Jessica Corbett, Joe Biden, John Washington, Justice, liberal antifascism is an oxymoron, Mass incarceration, Media, Migrant Industrial Complex, Migrant Rights, MP6, nationalism, nativism, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, police state, Politics, Pork Reich, prison industrial complex, private prisons, Propaganda, Texas Observer, Title 42, US politics, warehousing migrants is big business, WD7, Weimar America, white supremacy

Nina-Bytes: By Any Other Name

In today’s Nina-Bytes we’re tracking back to remind Joe Biden that he ran on ending Trump’s fascist immigration policies; not extending and adopting them.

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.

Fascism FotB Social Justice Videos

Scurvy November 19, 2022 analysis, anti-trans bigotry, anti-trans pogrom, Bigotry, christofascism, critique, eliminationism, FA1, fascism, FotB, Friends of the Blog, fundies, gender analysis, gender studies, Jessie Gender, left wing Youtube, LGBTQ rights, Matt Walsh, movie reviews, Propaganda, pushing back on reactionary thought, reactionary thought, religious fundamentalism, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, Social Justice, ST2, Take Downs, trans rights, trans rights are human rights, transphobia, transphobic propaganda, Video, vlog, WD7, What Is a Woman, Youtube

Scurvy’s Selection: “The Unending Lies of Matt Walsh”

Our stalwart site admin Scurvy is back with his hot Selection this week; an epic four hour dissection of Matt Walsh’s transphobic propaganda by Jessie Gender!

Analysis Climate Crisis media Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 17, 2022November 18, 2022 activism, analysis, anticapitalism, Big Oil, blog, Brett Wilkins, CA4, capitalism, Capitalist Propaganda, CC3, Climate Action Network, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, climate racism, climate theatre, Common Dreams, COP27, Daniel Rodriguez, developing world, fighting climate change, fossil fuels, Fridays for Future, genocide, George Monbiot, Greta Thunberg, Harjeet Singh, Ian Brown, John Vidal, Keep It In the Ground, Letters to the Editor, lobbyist, Luisa Nebauer, Malthusianism, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, overpopulation, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Socialism, The Guardian, Theory, United Nations Climate Change Conference

Recommended Reading: Mass Response

Using two recent media examples, lets talk about hope and the growing body of evidence that everyday people know capitalism is the driver of climate crisis.

Blog Fascism Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth November 17, 2022November 17, 2022 American Volk, antifascism, antisemitism, blog, conspiracy theories, Donald Trump, electoral politics, eliminationism, FA1, false sense of security, fascism, fascism isn't over, fascist fantasy, GOP, Great Replacement Theory, hatemongering, How Fascism Works, LGBTQ rights, liberal complacency, Media, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Politics, projection, Propaganda, Republican Party, Ron DeSantis, ST2, stop fascism, Theory, trans rights, Trumpism, US Midterm Elections, US politics, victim complex

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.