Articles observing and analyzing the basic mode of domination relying on control through charisma: lies, conspiracy theories, false consciousness, false binaries, historical revisionism, hero worship, scapegoating, dehumanization, and media manipulation.
The ideas that became socially acceptable with the rise of Serbian nationalism in the 1980s soon found their concrete political implementation. What emerged was an ideological cocktail of racism, demographic panic, conspiratorial paranoia, and revanchism that ultimately proposed an urgent need for action against an allegedly existential threat.
The Balkans in Rightwing Mythology Read More »
Things were not exactly peachy during the first years of the Putin regime, but they became a hell of a lot worse after the Kremlin invaded Ukraine and went flying off to Syria to save Assad’s bacon from the fire of popular revolution.
Putinism and Acquiescence Read More »
Russia’s noodling around, egging rightward mischief here and there, while entangled in shady deals worth millions, is a dark-money connection worth understanding.
Your Global Fascism Is Showing Read More »
They’re doing the practice of internationalist solidarity better than the left has done. It just happens to be this congress of the damned.
Brexit, Global White Supremacy, and the Fascist Internationale Read More »
We’re probably incapable, as a society, of forming even a tenuous temporary popular front in the case of extreme emergency. We can’t even appeal, it seems, to the basic precept that genocide is bad. That’s scary.
SIGMATA: Is Popular-Front Antifascism a Fantasy? Read More »
Anti-imperialists may believe they are on the right side of history. But history has already shown the results of opposing a liberal order through red-brown populist collaboration.
How Fascists Operationalize Left Resentment Read More »
For less conformist members of the Soviet intelligentsia, endless condemnations of racism were essential parts of the state ideology they so despised.
On the Peculiar Racism of Soviet Émigrés Read More »
Many of the elements of fascism that have taken a new form in American society were already present there. This is not just about Trump.
Culmination of a Counterrevolution Read More »
Spending time among Russian antifascist punks taught me a political—and very personal—lesson. Benjamin Herbert
It Doesn’t Have to Be Like This Read More »
There is now a political constituency being crafted at the highest level that has fear as a motivating factor. Once the limits are taken off, we end up in this Mad Max world where whatever is politically profitable will be used, no matter how destructive it is.
Fear Makes Us Dumb, and Possibly Doomed Read More »
