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

Can't You Read Essays Fascism News

NinaIllingworth January 13, 2021April 17, 2025 Amerikan Musik, Biden crackdown, Can't You Read, Capitol Hill Police, chicken coup, chud riot, contrarian left, coup, coup attempt, crackers, Daily Poster, David Sirota, DC riots, Department of Defense, Donald Trump, doomed to fail, Essays, FA1, fake left, fallout, fascism, fascist coup attempt, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, GOP is fascist, I Told You So, inside job, insurrection, JA5, January 6th 2021, Josh Hawley, liberal enablers, Mike Pence, Mike Tracey, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberal authoritarianism, News, Nina Illingworth, pathetic coup, Pentagon, political violence, Politics, QAnon, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican Party, ST2, stupid coup, Ted Cruz, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, yes it was a coup

Counting Coup on Can’t You Read

Over on Can’t You Read, Nina closes the Trump-era chapter of American Fascism by reciting her works and counting coup on faux-left contrarians and numpties.

Censorship Essays Patreon Social Media

NinaIllingworth January 5, 2021April 17, 2025 Andy Ngo, anti-Bernie campaign, Bernie Sanders, blue check hierarchy, Bob Mercer, Cambridge Analytica, censorship, CIA, Clinton media list, coordinated harassment, corporate propaganda, Correct the Record, data harvesting, disinformation, Edward Snowden, Essays, FA1, Facebook, Gamergate, Google, Ian Miles Cheong, influence market, Jack Dorsey, Mike Cernovich, MP6, Neera Tanden, neofeudalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, online censorship, online marketing, online surveillance, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Pizzagate, Politics, profanity is praxis, Project Mockingbird, Propaganda, ratfucking, Sally Albright, selling user data, Snowden Leaks, social media, spying on users, ST2, swearing, troll armies, trolls, Trump, Twitter, Twitter rules, twitter suspension, unregulated, Wikileaks

On What Twitter Is & Why I’m Fine With Never Coming Back

A link to a new essay on my free Patreon blog that discusses why Twitter’s role in public discourse is frankly pretty sinister, and I don’t miss it one bit.

Essays Fascism media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth December 18, 2020November 5, 2022 21st century fascism, Aimee Terese, Amerikan Musik, Angela Nagle, anticommunism, Caitlin Johnstone, contrarian left, crypto fascism, distortions, Donald Trump, Downmarket Mussolini, Essays, FA1, fake populism, Fantastic Lies, fascism, gaslighting, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, GOP is fascist, Hitler, independent media, Jason Stanley, Jim Crow fascism, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Lee Fang, left right alliance, left wing theory, liberalism empowers fascism, lie, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Masha Gessen, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, Media, Mike Tracey, MP6, Mussolini, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, Op-Ed, Palmer Raids, Palooka Joe, Politics, reactionary thought, Red Scare podcast, Republican Party, right wing populism, Ron Paul libertarians, skeptics, social media, ST2, Stupidpol, the Red Scare, Theory, Timothy Snyder, Trump Coup, Trump is a fascist, Trump isn't Hitler but so what?, Trumpism is fascism, woke neoliberalism, Zaid Jilani

‘The Devil You Know? A Response to Recent Revisionist History From the Contrarian “Left”

An op-ed aggressively refuting the contrarian faux-left position that calling Trump a fascist is some sort of liberal psyop designed to distract the left.

Essays media Patreon socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 15, 2020April 17, 2025 $15 minimum wage, 2024 US Election, Adolph Reed Jr, Alex Jones, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, anti war, anti-establishment right, anti-globalization, antifa, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Bidenism, Black Lives Matter, CA4, class reductionism, class theory, class warfare, climate catastrophe, Covid 19, Covid eugenics, Democratic Party, Essays, informal writing, intersectionality, Jimmy Dore, Joe Biden, labor class, left wing organizing, left wing theory, leftism, Mea Culpas, Media, Medicare for all, neoliberalism, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, online drama, online left, Opinion, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, police violence, Politics, populism, progressive caucus, social media, Socialism, the Sanders left, Theory, Tulsi Gabbard, Twitter, universal healthcare, Wall Street corruption, Youtube

Essay: On Mea Culpas, the Populist Alliance & the Young American Left (Link)

A link to a (free to read) Patreon Blog essay that looks at online Twitter drama, declaring war on Bidenist neoliberalism and why anti-identity politics populism is cancer for the left.

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…

Can't You Read Essays Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth December 9, 2020April 17, 2025 ALEC, Alex Kotch, American Legislative Exchange Council, Amerikan Musik, analysis, articles that feature other articles, AstroTurf, billionaire fascists, blog, Bob Mercer, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, Chuds, Climate Crisis, CMD, Conspiracy Facts, Covid 19, dark money, DeVos, DeVos Network, ecofascism, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascist propaganda, free market propaganda, Koch, Koch network, libertarianism, lockdown protests, militias, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, post-Trump fascism, post-Trump politics, Propaganda, reactionary thought, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, ST2, think tanks, Trump, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, US politics, Wall Street, white supremacy

American Fascism and Networks of Power on Can’t You Read

A link to a short essay on Can’t You Read about why fascism will survive Trump; includes a recommended reading article showing fascist power networks in action during the Covid-19 anti-lockdown protests.

Essays Fascism Politics socialism Videos

NinaIllingworth December 1, 2020November 17, 2022 activism, analysis, Ben Shapiro, blog, Briahna Joy Gray, Buckley Jr was a fraud, Cambridge, capitalism, Cody Johnston, Essays, Facebook, fascism, Gravel Institute, James Baldwin, Lambert Strether, Leon Trotsky, link dump, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Michael Parenti, Naked Capitalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Politics, posts I hate making, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Rudolf Rocker, Social Justice, Socialism, Some More News, Thank You note, The Gravel Institute, Video, whiteness, Yves Smith, Zephyr Teachout

November Small Ball Update

A (now redundant) roundup of all of Nina’s smaller posts in October and November; including Facebook Journal and Can’t You Read links we’ve never shared until now on ninaillingworth.com.

Essays Fascism media Media Madness

NinaIllingworth November 20, 2020April 17, 2025 2024 US Election, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, analysis, Bob Mercer, Breitbart News, CA4, capitalism, capitalism is white supremacy, coup, Crenshaw, dark money, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, ecofascism, elite capital, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascism will outlive Trump, fascist billionaires, fascist propaganda, fascist succession crisis, Fox News, Gaetz, GOP, Hawley, Josh Hawley, Luke O'Neil, Media, Media Madness, Media Madness blog, MP6, Next Trump, Nina Illingworth, OANN, Offsite Writing, Pork Reich, post election fascism, right wing reactionaries, social media, swine emperor, Tom Cotton, toxic masculinity, Tucker Carlson, US politics, white nationalism, white supremacy

Link: “No Magic Man” on Media Madness

A link to a short essay examining the relationship between masculine authority and fascism, as well as the reasons why the Pork Reich will survive just fine without Trump.

Can't You Read Climate Crisis Essays Fascism

NinaIllingworth October 5, 2020April 13, 2025 Amerikan Musik, anticapitalism, antifascism, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, carbon emissions, CC3, class war, class warfare, climate, climate change, climate change is driving fascism, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, climate justice, doomsday bunkers, ecofascism, environment, Essays, Eugenics, extractivism, extractivism will kill us all, fascism, fossil fuel industry, fossil fuels, genocide, hyperlinks, informal writing, Journals, left wing theory, Leftist Theory, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oil, oligarchy, Politics, Propaganda, rigged oligarchy, salon discussion, social control, ST2, The Pig Empire, The West, Theory

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.

Essays Fascism News Opinion Politics

NinaIllingworth October 4, 2020November 5, 2022 2020 US Election, American fascism will outlive Trump, Amerikan Musik, anarchism, AstroTurf, Bill Barr, billionaire fascists, Boogaloo movement, Captain Trips, climate catastrophe, conspiracy, coronavirus, Covid 19, Covid Lockdown Protests, dark money, death cult, ecofascism, Essays, FA1, fascism, fascist donor networks, GOP, GOP is fascist, ICE, Joe Biden, Josh Hawley, Kamala Harris, legal coup, Mike Pence, militias, Mistah Kurtz He Dead, MP6, nativism, News, Opinion, Politics, Proud Boys, QAnon, Republican Party, SCOTUS coup, Second American Civil War, SuperPAC, Tea Party, Three Percenter militia, Tom Cotton, Trump, Tucker Carlson, Twelfth Amendment, white nationalism

What if the Swine Emperor Croaks Tho?

A short essay about what swine emperor Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis might mean for the 2020 election, and American fascism going forward after the election.

Essays Fascism media Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth September 28, 2020November 5, 2022 2008 Financial Crisis, 2016 US Election, Alt Right, Amerikan Musik, conspiracy theory, David Renton, Deep Dives, Essays, FA1, Fantastic Lies, fascism, for profit medial propaganda model, Fox News, Fox News Fear Factory, Hannah Arendt, Harvey Weinstein, How Fascism Works, Hugo Weaving, Inventing Reality, Iraq War, James Clapper, Jason Stanley, Jeff Epstein, Joy Reid, Julius Evola, left wing theory, lie, Lügenpresse, mainstreaming white supremacy, manufacturing consent, Matt Taibbi, Media, Michael Lynch, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, New York Times, News Corp, Noam Chomsky, Owen Jones, pig empire, Political Mind Games, Politics, Poor Democracy, Pork Reich, Rich Media, Robert Paxton, Roy Eidelson, Rupert Murdoch, Russiagate, ST2, The Daily Beast, The Establishment, the New Authoritarians, Theory, Washington Post, white genocide is a nazi conspiracy theory, white nationalism

Theory Discussion: On Media, White Nationalism & Hugo Weaving

An lengthy discussion about why propping up corporate “liberal” media is no antidote to the rise of white nationalism; triggered by reading an interview with Hugo Weaving.