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

NinaIllingworth November 21, 2022November 21, 2022 Amerikan Musik, anti-LGBTQ violence, anti-trans violence, antifascism, attacks on LGBTQ people, blog, Buffalo mass shooting, Club Q, Club Q shooting, Colorado Springs, eliminationism, FA1, fascism, fascist propaganda, hate crime, hate speech, homophobia, instagram, Lauren Boebert, LGBTQ, LGBTQ issues, LGBTQ rights, mainstreaming hate, mass shooting, Media, Mini Theory Blog, Nina Illingworth, Politics, right wing violence, Social Justice, social media, ST2, stochastic terrorism, Theory, trans rights, Transgender Day of Remembrance, transphobia

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.

Analysis Climate Crisis media Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 17, 2022November 18, 2022 activism, analysis, anticapitalism, Big Oil, blog, Brett Wilkins, CA4, capitalism, Capitalist Propaganda, CC3, Climate Action Network, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, climate racism, climate theatre, Common Dreams, COP27, Daniel Rodriguez, developing world, fighting climate change, fossil fuels, Fridays for Future, genocide, George Monbiot, Greta Thunberg, Harjeet Singh, Ian Brown, John Vidal, Keep It In the Ground, Letters to the Editor, lobbyist, Luisa Nebauer, Malthusianism, Media, MP6, Nina Illingworth, overpopulation, Politics, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Socialism, The Guardian, Theory, United Nations Climate Change Conference

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.

Blog Capitalism Climate Crisis Politics

NinaIllingworth November 16, 2022 Abdul El-Sayed, anticapitalism, antifascism, Biden Administration, Big Oil, blog, CA4, capitalism, capitalist realism, climate apocalypse, Climate Crisis, climate genocide, climate science denial, Covid 19, dark money, Democratic Party, ecofascism, Eugenics, FA1, fascism, fascist conspiracy theories, for profit healthcare, fossil fuel industry, free market fundamentalism, genocide, GOP, Great Replacement Theory, green jobs, Jacobin, medical debt, medical insurance industry, money in politics, MP6, neofeudalism, Nina Illingworth, Nina-Bytes, pandemic, Politics, Republicans, Ricardo Gomez, Socialism, ST2, the GOP is fascist, The New Republic, Theory, Trumpism, US Midterm Elections, US politics

Nina-Bytes: Things Left Unsaid

You can learn a lot by listening to what American politicians talk about during elections; but sometimes, what they won’t talk about reveals a whole lot more.

Blog Fascism Social Justice Theory

NinaIllingworth November 16, 2022November 16, 2022 anarchism, anarchist theory, antifascism, become ungovernable, blog, Civil Rights, collaborators, Democracy, FA1, fascism, instagram, left wing theory, legal fascism, Little Eichmanns, Mini Theory Blog, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, oligarchy, police state, Politics, resist fascism, rigged oligarchy, SCOTUS, Social Justice, social media, Socialism, ST2, Theory, top down fascism, US Midterm Elections, US politics

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.

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.

Blog Capitalism Labor Rec Reads

NinaIllingworth November 14, 2022November 17, 2022 anticapitalism, blog, CA4, capitalism, capitalism will kill us all, capitalist realism, child labor, class war, defensive democracy, defensive voting, Deregulation, exploitation, free market fundamentalism, Great Depression, Josh Fiallo, labor, labor rights, labor theory, late capitalism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, new Gilded Age, Nina Illingworth, organized labor, Packers Sanitation Services, pig empire, PSSI, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, revolutionary theory, Robber Barons, Second Gilded Age, Socialism, ST2, sweatshops, The Daily Beast, Theory

Quickshot Quotations: Sacrifice and Greed

Using a commonly misattributed quote from Alanis Obomsawin, Nina talks about why capitalist ideology itself is preventing us from stopping climate catastrophe.

Blog Climate Crisis Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth November 11, 2022November 11, 2022 activism, anticapitalism, antifascism, antifascist organizing, antifascist united front, blog, CC3, Climate Crisis, Democratic Party, FA1, fascism, fascist creep, Gen Z, global warming, GOP, instagram, left wing theory, liberals, millennial issues, Mini Theory Blog, MP6, NIDC, Nina Illingworth, organizing, Politics, Pork Reich, Republicans, ST2, stopping climate crisis, Theory, US Midterm Elections, US politics

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.

Books Fascism Politics Reviews

NinaIllingworth November 10, 2022 Amerikan Musik, Andy Campbell, antifa, antifascism, Book Blog, Bookish Bits, Books, chicken coup, corporate media, crowdfunded fascism, dark money, Donald Trump, Enrique Tarrio, FA1, fascism, fascism and antifascism are NOT the same, fascist psyop, fascist street gangs, Gavin McInnes, GOP, January 6th, January 6th coup attempt, Media, Mike Nordean, MP6, Nina Illingworth, political violence, Politics, Pork Reich, Portland, Proud Boys, Proud of Our Boy, Republicans, Reviews, right wing terrorism, Roger Stone, ST2, Theory, Trumpism, We Are Proud Boys

Bookish Bits: Proud of Our Boy

Nina reviews “We Are Proud Boys” by Andy Campbell and finds it to be a refreshing change from mainstream “both-sides” coverage of fascist political violence.