Review of Alberto Toscano’s “Late Fascism”

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Alberto Toscano’s book offers a helpful overview of antifascist writings with an emphasis on authors loosely associated with Critical Theory. Of particular value is Toscano’s discussion of the role of myth in fascist ideology, which focuses on contributions by Italian scholar Furio Jesi and has relevance for understanding Donald Trump’s speeches and far right online meme culture. Yet Toscano’s discussion of “racial fascism” exaggerates capitalists’ ability to control events, strips both fascists and antifascists of political agency, and reflects an obliviousness to antifascists’ strategic and tactical concerns.

Antifascist, Book Review, fascism, Paul Bowman


Notes on Loren Goldner’s “Fictitious Capital for Beginners”

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I’d like to point Three Way Fight readers to another essay on the roots of the current financial crisis that relates closely to many of TWF’s particular concerns and objectives. It’s Loren Goldner’s “Fictitious Capital …

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from Bring the Ruckus. response by McBee on Crisis and the Three Way Fight

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from Bring the Ruckus. excerpted response by McBee: I believe that it is important to discuss the ramifications of a permanent “left” establishment, at least in urban centers and at a national level, and a …

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1) More Discussion on the Crisis and the Three Way Fight: 3 Responses An example of a “state capitalist” ruling class perspective, & what is a “liberal” capitalist program? comments by Nick Paretsky. There’s analysis …

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An example of a “state capitalist” ruling class perspective, & what is a “liberal” capitalist program?

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comments by Nick Paretsky. There’s analysis and commentary all over the internet on the pending nationalization of the banking system throughout the advanced capitalist world; here’s a little more. During the seventies, when capitalism was …

capitalism, Council on Foreign Relations, financial crisis, Nick Paretsky, ruling class, State capitalist, Trilateral Commission

Raw Story: Did anti-Muslim documentary spur Ohio mosque gassing?

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From the Raw Story website: by Muriel KanePublished: Monday September 29, 2008 In the wake of an alleged attack on a mosque in Ohio during a prayer session celebrating the final days of the holy …

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Muslim student Attacked at Chicago University

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From the Chicago Sun Times: A student who says she was attacked by a masked gunman at Elmhurst College Thursday night was the target of anti-Muslim graffiti a week ago, authorities say… The student — …

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Notes on Trump/MAGA 2024

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Even more than in the past, Trump and the MAGA movement have brought key elements of fascist politics into the Republican Party, and a second Trump presidency is likely to be significantly more authoritarian than the first one.

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Reading Adam Shatz on the war in Gaza

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by Matthew N. Lyons How do we forcefully make the case to defend the Palestinian people in Gaza against Israel’s increasingly genocidal assault, and also honor the conflict’s heartbreaking contradictions? This is a question I’ve …

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Burn the foundation and all that it upholds: an antifascist review of “Tell Me I’m Worthless” by Alison Rumfitt

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“The House spreads. Its arteries run throughout the country. Its lifeblood flows into Westminster, into Scotland Yard, into every village and every city. It flows into you, and into your mother. It keeps you alive. …

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Trump’s Gospel: A Review of Jeff Sharlet’s The Undertow

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So much has been already said about Donald J. Trump, Trumpism, and the amorphous mass known as his “base” that it hardly seems worth revisiting the topic almost eight years after his fateful descent down Trump Tower’s golden excavator. Just as the 2016 election seemed to confirm everything that virtually everyone had already been saying about US politics for years, so too does Donald Trump today seem self-explanatory.

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Who’s Afraid of Luigi Mangione? A Response to Alexander Reid Ross

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Luigi Mangione’s recent alleged killing of an insurance CEO touched a wedge issue that cuts across class and across the political spectrum—the massive corruption of the health insurance industry—and created an opening for the left. A recent article by ex-leftist Alexander Reid Ross, which dismisses Mangione as expressing an American proclivity for violence, represents a counterinsurgency action in defense of the state.

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Right-wing anti-imperialists are not promoting feudalism: A reply to Michael Karadjis

I promised three weeks ago that I’d reply to Michael Karadjis’s “Hizbullah, Iran and ‘Right-Wing Anti-Imperialism’: A Reply to Critics,” which was posted on Green Left Bloggers on September 20th. Here are my thoughts. Karadjis

By Who Name You Be Coming In!?

Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert apparently is joining forces with a Kahanist (read: fascist)politician and his party. He embroiled Israel in a superfluous and failed war, and this week threatened to join up with the

Sugar Plumb Fairy! Sugar Plumb Fairy!

Ok article about the Iranian nuclear issue and Washington’s refusal to debate or negotiate, although this “leftist” seems not at all bothered by the mindless sloganeering, like Marg Bar Amrika (Death To America) which to

Coups For Sale

Thailand’s interim, army-appointed prime minister unveiled his new cabinet on Monday, with a respected central bank governor as finance minister in an apparent bid to reassure investors after last month’s coup …Confirmation of Pridiyathorn Devakula

Inner workings: Blocking Iran unites Israel, Arab kings

In order for the Arab regimes to work with Israel and to counter Iran’s appeal to the Arab street, they would have to solve the one problem that’s defined the Arab experience for over half

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More of that anti-Semitism. Thank Shizzzmmmaagghh for those that follow an ancient religious text as a model for society in the 21st Century. The French Embassy on Monday canceled a New York party for a

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Review of Alberto Toscano’s “Late Fascism”

Alberto Toscano’s book offers a helpful overview of antifascist writings with an emphasis on authors loosely associated with Critical Theory. Of particular value is Toscano’s discussion of the role of myth in fascist ideology, which focuses on contributions by Italian scholar Furio Jesi and has relevance for understanding Donald Trump’s speeches and far right online meme culture. Yet Toscano’s discussion of “racial fascism” exaggerates capitalists’ ability to control events, strips both fascists and antifascists of political agency, and reflects an obliviousness to antifascists’ strategic and tactical concerns.

Review of “Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism”

Shane Burley and Ben Lorber offer a thoughtful radical analysis of how antisemitism works, how it fuels supremacist politics more broadly, and how the charge of antisemitism is misused to attack Palestine solidarity and the left. To combat antisemitism they argue for a strategy based on mass mobilization, dialog, and an intersectional critique of oppressions.

Who’s Afraid of Luigi Mangione? A Response to Alexander Reid Ross

Luigi Mangione’s recent alleged killing of an insurance CEO touched a wedge issue that cuts across class and across the political spectrum—the massive corruption of the health insurance industry—and created an opening for the left. A recent article by ex-leftist Alexander Reid Ross, which dismisses Mangione as expressing an American proclivity for violence, represents a counterinsurgency action in defense of the state.

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Resisting Trump and the MAGA movement: No Borders Media interview with Matthew Lyons

From the No Borders Media description: “On U.S. Election Day, No Borders Media features an interview with researcher Matthew Lyons on resisting the Trump/MAGA movement.