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Mini-Theory Blog: Intended Purpose

Nina dispenses with the nonsensical idea that fascist politicians don’t mean to incite stochastic terrorism against the marginalized people they demonize.

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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.

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Mini-Theory Blog: Primary Front

Today’s Instagram Mini-Theory Blog features a few words on why democracy can lose at the ballot box, but that’s not where fascism wins.

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Mini-Theory Blog: Reactionary Genesis

In today’s Mini Theory Blog, we’re talking about why an election isn’t the end of American fascism so long as the media helps it regenerate and thrive.

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Mini-Theory Blog: The Kids Are Alright

In our Mini-Theory Blog, Nina talks about the secret good news that came out of a US Midterm election season that still saw fascism claw closer to power.

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Mini-Theory Blog: Play it Again, Sam

Editor’s note: Our Mini-Theory Blog is a weekday feature on Instagram that examines one key left wing idea, theory, or concept in 2200 keystrokes

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Mini-Theory Blog: Eichmann Shrugged

In today’s edition of our Instagram Mini-Theory Blog we’re talking about what it does, and doesn’t mean, if and when fascists seize power through elections.

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Film Sessions: Beefing with White Supremacy in Online Left Spaces

Our monthly Film Sessions feature is back; today Nina is exploring an online cracker backlash to decolonization movements, using a video by John the Duncan.

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Evolving Together: Why You Should Read Kropotkin’s Mutual Aid by Chris Walker

Today we welcome back Chris Walker, whose book review encourages us to explore reading leftist theory as an evolution; with an assist from Petr Kropotkin.

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Film Sessions: Crypto-Fascism and a Modern “Shirt Group” on Media Madness

In this edition of Film Sessions we’re looking at Renegade Cut’s study of the Proud Boys to understand how crypto-fascist propaganda works.

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Six Things I Think: A Bipartisan Propaganda Frontier

An extremely granular look at the how the propaganda model predicts the mind-warping media discussion around the so called “migrant crisis at the border.”

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