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Blog Can't You Read Fascism Theory

NinaIllingworth September 24, 2020April 20, 2025 Amerikan Musik, antisemitism, blog, Can't You Read, eliminationism, ethnonationalism, FA1, fascism, Hidutva, ideology, Jason Stanley, Media Madness, nationalism, Nina Illingworth, Social Darwinism, ST2, Theory, Trumpism, white nationalism

Fascism, White Nationalism and American Values

Editor’s note: this article was originally published September 24th, 2020 on my Media Madness blog. I’m reposting it, backdated, here on

Fascism Media Madness Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth September 5, 2020April 16, 2025 ACAB, against the left, Alt Right, Alt Right means Fascist, Amerikan Musik, antifa, antifascism, blog, Donald Trump, FA1, far right, fascism, fascism and antifascism are NOT the same, George Floyd Protests, horseshoe theory, In These Times, JA5, Joe Biden, Kyle Rittenhouse, Media, Media Madness, Natasha Lennard, neonazi, Nina Illingworth, Noah Berlatsky, Offsite Writing, Pacific Standard Magazine, Police, Politics, protest is legal murder is not, Protesters, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, right wing extremism, right wing terrorism, Rittenhouse is a murderer, ST2, Stanislav Vysotsky, Theory, Vice News

Media Madness Blog: Hamstrung

A short but heavily sourced Media Madness blog from September 2020 that looks at the dangers of pushing horseshoe theory in the fascist moment.

Justice media Patreon Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth March 27, 2020April 15, 2025 a propaganda system, activism, Cheney, Clapper, corporate media, corruption, Crime, criminality, Donald Trump, Essays, George Bush, Hayden, holding power accountable, impeachment, Imperialism, Joe Biden, Justice, left wing theory, lie, mass murderers, Media, MLK, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Obama, Offsite Writing, Panetta, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Propaganda, propaganda of amnesia, rigged oligarchy, SCOTUS, Social Justice, ST2, Supreme Court, the propaganda model, Theory, truth speaking, War Crimes, War on Terror, WD7

Link: Theory Discussion – Advocates for Truth

An essay-length Patreon discussion about the difference between wrong and illegal as it pertains to Pig Empire malfeasance, and a note about why we must become advocates for truth.

Essays Neoliberalism Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth November 14, 2019April 15, 2025 Affordable Care Act, Amazon, anticapitalism, austerity, Ayn Rand, Big Tech, bribery, CA4, colonialism, corporate power, corruption, debt slavery, domestic policy, Economics, Essays, extractivism, Ferguson, financialization, left wing theory, lexicon, medical insurance, Medicare for all, monopoly power, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Obamacare, Offsite Writing, panopticon, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, policing for profit, private surveillance, privatization, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rents, social safety nets, special economic zones, ST2, subsidies, taxation, Theory, Theory Discussion, Uber, Wall Street bailout, Walmart

Link: Theory Discussion A Working Definition of Neofeudalism – New Essay

As dystopian as neoliberal capitalism is, adding coercion and corporate recapture to the mix has created a new form of anti-labor extractivism: neofeudalism.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth October 28, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Bernie Sanders, Bircher nonsense, blog, Brooks Brothers Riot, CA4, class war, confronting fascism, democratic socialism, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, fascism, history of liberalism, how liberalism works, labor class, left wing theory, liberalism, Liz Warren is a muppet, Matt Gaetz, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, PMC, political history, Political Theory, Politics, Professional Class, professional managerial class, Socialism, technocratic incrementalism, technocrats, The Skinny, Theory, Trump impeachment, US politics, why liberals lose, working class

The Skinny: a Liberal Lexicon

A collection of informal journal writing; this time we’re talking about liberalism and the American political imagination.

Essays media Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth May 29, 2019April 13, 2025 1996 Telecom Act, American history, cable news, class, class war, corporate media, Debunking the Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press, Essays, Fantastic Lies, for profit media, forever war, History, Iraq War, Jeff Bezos, Joe Hill, journalism, Julian Assange, left wing theory, Media, media lied us into war, media lies to you for power, media myths, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, mythmaking, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Propaganda, rich people own the media, ST2, The Post, The Post is a narrative building movie, Theory, Vietnam War, war, Watergate, Wikileaks, WMDs, yellow journalism

The Myth of a Forgotten American Free Press

A short Patreon essay about why corporate media-created narratives about their own role in checking the powerful are bunk.

Patreon Police State Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth May 18, 2019April 13, 2025 African Americans, anti racist intellectuals, anti-racism, anticapitalism, Black America, Black Intellectuals, Black Power Movement, capitalism, Civil Rights movement, civil war, class war, COINTELPRO, Economics, economics of racism, Essays, exploitation, FA1, Fred Hampton, genocide, how to get shot in America, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, Jim Crow, Kwame Ture, left wing theory, Malcolm X, Medgar Evers, MLK Jr, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Police, police state, Propaganda, race and class for the undercaste, racialized incarceration, Racism, Racism is profitable for the rich, racist propaganda, slavery, Social Justice, social sciences, Socialism, ST2, street racism, structural racism, the Black experience in America, The FBI killed Malcolm and Chairman Fred, Theory, WD7

“How to Get Shot in America” on Patreon

A link to one of my best essays, discussing how talking about where racism, meets capitalism, often results in assassination by the cracker aristocracy.

Neoliberalism Patreon socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth May 4, 2019April 13, 2025 anarchism, antifascism, bosses, bourgeoisie, bourgeoisie values, CA4, capitalism, casino lottery, class, class in America, class politics, class theory, class war, definition of class, Essays, exploitation, extraction, global capitalism, labor, labor class, left wing theory, Leftist Theory, living conditions, manager class, Marxism, Marxist Theory, middle class, modern class, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no war but class war, Occupy Wall Street, Offsite Writing, overseer class, Patreon, Patreon Blog, petite bourgeoisie, pig empire, PMC, Politics, poverty, Professional Class, ruling classes, slavery, Socialism, ST2, the class war never ended, the owner class, Theory, wage slavery, you are probably not middle class

A Functional Class Framework for Modern Western Leftists

A Patreon Blog essay that updates the terminology of class warfare and explains why you probably aren’t middle class if you’re reading this.

Essays media Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth December 12, 2018April 13, 2025 capitalism, Chomsky, context, corporate media, Essays, Fantastic Lies, framing, independent media, Inventing Reality, longform writing, manufacturing consent, Media, media bias, media manipulation, media studies, Media Theory, Michael Parenti, MP6, myth of a free press, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, no free press, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Propaganda, right wing press, Socialism, ST2, Theory

Essay: Lying Without Lying (Link)

A link to a 2018 Media Theory essay on Patreon that I wrote about the manipulation of framing, context & depth to lie without lying in the media.

Essays Fascism Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2018April 20, 2025 a new mainfesto for the end of the world, activism, American fascism, Amerikan Musik, anti-imperialism, anticapitalism, Bigotry, capitalism vs the climate, climate catastrophe, climate disaster, Corporatism, Essays, Evil, FA1, fascism, Fascism Ascendant in the USA, global deregulated capitalism, Imperialism, Jair Bolsonaro, Media, Naomi Klein, NATO, neoliberalism, Observations from Outside the Death Star, oligarchy, OODS, Que Se Vayan Todos, rhetoric, ST2, Steve Bannon, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, Theory, they must all go, Trump, Trump Administration, war, western Europe, Western fascism

Praxis of Evil: Words As Weapons

As an educated person, I’m leery of categorizing any political struggle as a battle of good and evil, but actually the fascist Trump crew is literally just evil

Climate Crisis Neoliberalism Theory War

NinaIllingworth March 8, 2018November 5, 2022 austerity, bribery, bribes, CA4, Chicago School, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, Corporatism, elites, endless war, Essays, FA1, globalization, government, horror, Imperialism, informal writing, Journals, machine, Middle East, Milton Friedman, money in politics, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Op-Ed, personal, psychological torture, Rants, rich people mean you harm, skeptics, ST2, the Watchmen, Theory, Thompson, update, war, wildlife, writer, writer's block, writing

The Hammering In My Head

A short essay channeling Thompson to talk about why rich people are absolutely trying to kill you for literally pennies on the share.

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