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Essays Fascism Journals Politics

NinaIllingworth August 19, 2020November 5, 2022 Adolf Hitler, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Benito Mussolini, But He's Not Hitler, cold war, Donald Trump, Essays, Eternal Fascism, FA1, Facebook, Facebook Journals, fascism, Fascist Italy, genocide, Hannah Arendt, Homework, informal writing, Jim Crow, Journals, left wing theory, manifest destiny, Monroe Doctrine, MP6, Nazi Germany, Nazi State, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, On the Origins of Totalitarianism, scholars who study fascism, slavery, Syngman Rhee, Theory, Trump is a fascist, Umberto Eco, Ur Fascism, War on Terror, World War II

Link: “But He’s Not Hitler” Facebook Journal

A link to an essay length journal about why Americans don’t recognize fascism and offering up an essay but Umberto Eco to help them do so more effectively.

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 Fascism Patreon socialism

NinaIllingworth June 20, 2019April 13, 2025 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.

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.

Climate Crisis Neoliberalism Patreon War

NinaIllingworth April 30, 2019April 13, 2025 activism, CA4, capitalism, capitalism is mass murder, CC3, climate catastrophe, Climate Crisis, colonialism, Doomer poetry, emotional writing, environmental activism, Essays, extinction event, extraction of rents, FA1, financialization, fossil fuels, globalization, Imperialism, informal writing, JA5, Journals, killing people for profit, left wing theory, Left Wing Theory Page, Marxism, Marxist analysis, Marxist historian, mass murder, neocolonialism, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, oligarchy, Patreon, Patreon Blog, plutocracy, Protest, Rent Your Life, rich people are trying to kill you, Socialism, ST2, technocracy, Theory, war, war on the environment, WD7, We Live Lies, yes it's that bad

No Illusions (About How Bad It Is)

A link to a Patreon Blog essay discussion the bald-faced reality that rich people are absolutely trying to murder you for profit.

Blog Books Can't You Read Neoliberalism

NinaIllingworth December 29, 2018April 13, 2025 2008 Financial Crisis, activism, Alan Greenspan, austerity, Ayn Rand, bailout, banker, blog, book review, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, capitalism as religion, casino, corporate welfare, Deregulation, Essays, FEC, Federal Exchange Commission, Foreclosure Crisis, Fraud, free market fundamentalism, Griftopia, hot money, investment banking, laissez faire, Matt Taibbi, Meme, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Racism, speculators, the fraud economy, Theory

Blog: Ayn Rand, Alan Greenspan & Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia

A collection of links to my writing about Taibbi’s Griftopia, including an essay about Ayn Rand & Alan Greenspan.

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.