To resist the forces of fascism, we need an alternative approach to the crisis that’s based on a social justice agenda.
Source: To Defeat Fascism, We Must Recognize It’s a Failed Response to Capitalist Crisis
Tag: fascism
The Threat of Fascism Won’t End with Trump
Is Trump a fascist?In the increasingly perilous build-up to the November 3 presidential election, that question is on many people’s minds, including my own. Four years ago when Trump was first elected, I read up on German and Italian fascism to prepare myself for such a possibility here. While historical comparisons are difficult to make – Hitler and Mussolini’s rise to power took place almost a century ago – there are some striking parallels. These include:
Source: The Threat of Fascism Won’t End with Trump | Portside
For Real Resistance: The Fascist Trump-Barr Regime Can’t Simply Be Voted Out – CounterPunch.org
In applauding the extra-judicial paramilitary execution of the anti-fascist Michael Forest Reinoehl outside Olympia, Washington two weeks ago, Trump told Fatherland (FOX) News’ neo-Nazi host Jeanine Pirro last Saturday that “there has to be retribution.” The self-described Chosen One told Frau Pirro that “I put out, ‘When are you going to go get him?’ And the U.S. Marshals went in to get him. More
Source: For Real Resistance: The Fascist Trump-Barr Regime Can’t Simply Be Voted Out – CounterPunch.org
Trump the semi-fascist decoy: the agenda of mass murder
Secular society is the bedrock of modernity, but it tends to crystallize around a very ‘flat’ view of social and human potential. In any case, Trump has created a sense in many with not conceptual tools to analyze the situation of being ‘someone else’s’ man, and this often revolves around the obscure question of a Putin connection. The thinking surrounding the phenomenon of the Manchurian candidate points to it but it doesn’t really go far enough.
A lot of discussion surrounds the issue of fascism but while that is very much the point, one gets the feeling that the destructive effect springs from his not being a Hitler: a completely idiotic stand-in has actually inflicted tremendous harm on democracy: perhaps the real point.
From The Gurdjieff Con
Is trump a fascist drone? Is trump under hypnosis?
June 20th, 2018 • Continue reading “Trump the semi-fascist decoy: the agenda of mass murder”
America’s Road to Fascism Under Trump
An inside look at Trump’s first term — and how far we’ve fallen
Source: America’s Road to Fascism Under Trump on Flipboard by Raw Story
‘Fascism Coming to a City Near You’: Trump Pledges to Deploy Secret Police Units to Major US Cities
The president also praised federal agents for doing a “fantastic job” with a widely condemned crackdown on Portland, Oregon.
It is happening here…
Can it happen here?
It is happening here.Democracy in America has been a series of narrow escapes. We may be running out of luck, and no one is coming to save us. For that, we have only ourselves.
Source: Bill Moyers: It’s happening before our very eyes – Alternet.org
But how to build eco-socialism?
Source: Opinion -Our Grim Future: Restored Neoliberalism or Hybrid Neofascism?
Wannabe fascism meets neoliberal capitalism
One thing that unites the MAGA-hat cosplay fascists of the anti-lockdown “movement” and the Karens and Chads of the hashtag-resistance is the shared conviction that the United States of America is special and that nothing that happens here has much relationship to anything that happens anywhere else
dot.gov…creeping fascism, creepy fascists…
We get an update from Democracy Now! co-host Juan González about his mother and wife, who were infected with COVID-19, and discuss how right-wing Trump supporters are brandishing automatic weapons …
Source: ‘This country is edging closer to neofascist authoritarianism’ – 1848+: The End(s) of History
