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Books Fascism Reviews Theory

NinaIllingworth November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 American fascism, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, antifascist theory, book review, Bookish Bits, Books, Brazil, capitalism births fascism, capitalist ideology, capitalist realism, contemporary fascism, Cultural Marxism, Democracy, Donald Trump, eliminationism, FA1, fascism, Fascist Italy, fascist politics, faux democracy, Hannah Arendt, history of fascism, Hitler, How Fascism Works, India, Jair Bolsonaro, Jason Stanley, Joe Biden, Leon Trotsky, liberal antifascism, liberal democracies, Mussolini, Narendra Modi, Nazi Germany, neo fascism, Nina Illingworth, Pork Reich, Propaganda, reactionary thought, Reviews, semi fascism, ST2, Theodor Adorno, Theory, Umberto Eco, United States, Weimar America

Bookish Bits: Birdwatching With Liberal Antifascism

In this week’s Bookish Bits, Nina gets around to reviewing a delightful, but still extremely frustrating mainstream liberal analysis of modern fascist politics.

Fascism FotB Social Justice Videos

Scurvy November 19, 2022 analysis, anti-trans bigotry, anti-trans pogrom, Bigotry, christofascism, critique, eliminationism, FA1, fascism, FotB, Friends of the Blog, fundies, gender analysis, gender studies, Jessie Gender, left wing Youtube, LGBTQ rights, Matt Walsh, movie reviews, Propaganda, pushing back on reactionary thought, reactionary thought, religious fundamentalism, Scurvy, Scurvy's Selection, Social Justice, ST2, Take Downs, trans rights, trans rights are human rights, transphobia, transphobic propaganda, Video, vlog, WD7, What Is a Woman, Youtube

Scurvy’s Selection: “The Unending Lies of Matt Walsh”

Our stalwart site admin Scurvy is back with his hot Selection this week; an epic four hour dissection of Matt Walsh’s transphobic propaganda by Jessie Gender!

Blog Fascism media Theory

NinaIllingworth November 15, 2022November 15, 2022 Amerikan Musik, anti-trans pogrom, blog, CA4, corporate media, dark money, Democratic Party, Don't Say Gay Bill, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, Florida, GOP, instagram, Media, Mini Theory Blog, money in politics, monopoly media, Nina Illingworth, Politics, Pork Reich, propaganda model, reactionary thought, red trickle midterm, Republican Party, Ron DeSantis, ST2, Theory, Trumpen-Waffen, Trumpism, US Midterm Elections, US politics

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.

Fascism Personal Site Updates Social Media

NinaIllingworth February 21, 2021November 5, 2022 A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Amerikan Musik, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, antifascism, Boogaloo Boys, Books, Canada in the World, class reductionism, class war, communism, contrarian left, David Harvey, democratic socialism, extremely online wankers, FA1, Facebook, fascism, fascism is a bourgeoisie plot, fascism is about destroying the labor class, fascism is antisocialist, Gerald Horne, Glenn Greenwald, informal writing, JA5, Jimmy Dore, Journals, left right alliance, Matt Stoller, Matt Taibbi, MP6, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, online discourse, Pacifism As Pathology, personal, reactionary thought, revolution, revolutionary praxis, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Second Tier Faux Left Influencers, settler colonialism, Site Updates, social media, Socialism, The Apocalypse of Settler Colonialism, Tyler Shipley, Ward Churchill, whiteness, writing schedule

Facebook Update: Alive, Antifascist, and Irritable

A brief update on how I’m doing, what I’m reading, and why your friends online are kind of trash.

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.

Can't You Read Essays Fascism Politics

NinaIllingworth December 9, 2020November 17, 2022 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.

Blog Media Madness Social Justice Videos

NinaIllingworth November 29, 2020November 5, 2022 1965, African American writers, America is a white supremacist country, American history, Baldwin destroys Buckley, Baldwin vs Buckley debate, blog, Buckley ratted out left wing students in college, Buckley was a cracker, Buckley was a fraud, Buckley was Ben Shapiro before Ben Shapiro, casual white supremacy, Civil Rights, colorblind racism, conservatism, crypto fascism, east coast nazis, ending white supremacy, FA1, fake intellectual, film sessions, Hooverism, James Baldwin, left wing Youtube, leftism, Media Madness, mid-Atlantic accent, National Review, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oppression, Pin Drop Speech, Politics, public intellectuals, public opinion, racial justice, Racism, reactionary thought, rigged, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, Video, white supremacy, whiteness, William F. Buckley Jr

Film Sessions: Baldwin Vs. Buckley Debate “Pin Drop” Speech

A November 2020 Film Sessions mini-essay that talks about Baldwin vs Buckley and the tragedy of American amnesia in the struggle for racial justice.

Can't You Read Fascism Journals Social Justice

NinaIllingworth September 3, 2020November 5, 2022 activism, against the left, America is a fascist society, American society, anti fascism at the dinner table, antifa, antifascism, beating social Darwinism, Bircherism, blog, Can't You Read, capitalism, conservative politics, debunking fascists, deplatforming fascists, FA1, fascism, GOP, Hooverism, informal writing, Journals, McCarthyism, neoliberal authoritarianism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Opinion, opposing fascism in your every day life, Politics, primed for fascism, pushing back on reactionary thought, reactionary thought, Republican, silence is complicity, Social Darwinism, Social Justice, speaking out, ST2, the American right is fascist

Can’t You Read: The Home Front

A longer Can’t You Read journal that examines the vital importance of fighting the fascist creep on the home front; literally.

Essays Fascism Patreon socialism

NinaIllingworth June 20, 2019November 5, 2022 a history of fascism in America, American Bund, American history, American left, Amerikan Musik, anticommunism, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, civility politics, Clintonism, COINTELPRO, cold war, contrarian left, Deep Dives, Democrat fascist enablers, Democratic Socialists, Democrats, Donald Trump, Encampments, Essays, FA1, fake resistance, far right, fascism, FDR, FDR liberals, George Wallace, GOP, J Edgar Hoover, JA5, LBJ, liberalism, liberalism enables fascism, McCarthyism, neoliberal, neoliberalism breeds fascism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, paleoconservatism, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, Political Theory, Politics, Pork Reich, radical left, reactionary thought, Reaganism, Republican, Republican Party, rich fascists, Richard Nixon, right wing populism, right wing terrorism, Russiagate, Socialism, the American Tea Party, The Resistance, Theory, Trumpism, Trumpism is fascism, united front against fascism, Volkish populism, War on Terror, WD7, white nationalism

Essay: “Encampments” on my Free Patreon Blog

A deep dive essay about the importance of a united antifascist front even in the face of resistance and neoliberal co-opting operations on my free Patron Blog.