[UNLOCKED] How Fascism Works (a Michael Parenti Reading)

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Michael Parenti Blackshirts And Reds

Michael Parenti dissecting Fascism and exposing it's true intention, ie anti-communism

Here's a PDF Version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism

A 404 Media reader made a PDF version of the World War II-era manual that's going viral right now.

Remembering the Anarchist Resistance to fascism

Andrew Flood Remembering the Anarchist Resistance to fascism March 4, 2005

AI as a Fascist Artifact

(Christian Tieber hat eine deutsche Übersetzung des Textes angefertigt: “KI” als faschistisches Artefakt. Vielen Dank Christian!) (This is a bit of a merger of two talks I recently gave about fascism and AI. One was in German at the Cables Of Resistance conference, one in English at the Milton Wolf Seminar on Media and Diplomacy. […]

Reflections on Habermas; Luzzato's "The First Fascist"

Reading, Watching 03.15.26

Naomi Klein’s new book calls out end times fascism. What is this – and what’s the role of big tech?

Two new books, End Times Fascism and Nerd Reich, take a hard look at fascism today – and its intersections with big tech.

Naomi Klein’s new book calls out end times fascism. What is this – and what’s the role of big tech?

Two new books, End Times Fascism and Nerd Reich, take a hard look at fascism today – and its intersections with big tech.

The Authoritarian Personality

This hugely influential study on the psychology of authoritarianism was written in answer to Hitler’s Germany—and now rings more relevant than ever as fascism and anti-Semitism sweep across America.What makes a fascist? Are there character traits that make someone more likely to vote for the far right? The Authoritarian Personality is not only one of the most significant works of social psychology ever written, it also marks a milestone in the development of Adorno’s thought, showing him grappling with the problem of fascism and the reasons for Europe’s turn to reaction. Over half a century later, and with the rise of right-wing populism and the reemergence of the far-right in recent years, this hugely influential study remains as insightful and relevant as ever.This new edition includes an introduction by Frankfurt School scholar Peter E. Gordon and contains the first-ever publication of Adorno’s subsequent critical notes on the project.“Adorno and his colleagues could easily have been describing Alex Jones’s paranoid InfoWars rants or the racist views expressed by many Trump supporters.” —New York Times

Understanding How Propaganda Works Helps Fight Fascism

In order to effectively fight fascism, it is essential to understand how propaganda, a key tool of fascist groups, works.

Fascism Depends On The Presumption Of Good Faith

The media's sanewashing of the Trump regime is fueled by this presumption

The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

This text was published in social media in January 2017 in a series of improvised, spontaneous tweets, which reached 3 million views within one month. Their common element was their trademark signature, “- With love, your Eastern European friends”, and the accompanying hashtag #LearnFromEurope. Excerpts and summaries were published by various on-line media, but this is the first time it is published as a whole.

It Was Fascism All Along

When we emphasize a distinction between conservatism and fascism, we obscure the structural logic that ties the right-wing project together.