Critical Response to Prabhat Patnaik’s article, “Neoliberalism and Fascism,” published in Agrarian South (2020), challenges the fatalism inherent in Patnaik’s analysis. This response advocates for reclaiming agency in the age…
At times like these—who am I kidding, when were there times like these?—one wants to stay in bed, bury one’s head, dream another dream. Or perhaps to privately twist and…
There is not much point really in hair-splitting debate on the degree of fascism of a party in power.I think we should direct more attention to the balance of forces…
A Constitutional crisis they say. Is it here already? Will it come soon? I think what they mean is will Trump defy a court order to not carry out one…
As resistance to fascism grows, and it is growing—how could it not—activists will face many choices. One that has often been quite contentious will re-arise. How should we decide whether…
Trump’s opening fascist tirade, during which I kept picturing him with a little moustache and straight arm salute, was designed to engender fear. He wanted to make it clear to…
Donald, the idiot, the madman, the consummate cowardly thug is preparing to unleash shock and awe to paint his agenda onto the American and the world stage such as we…
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price. For over two decades, I and a…
Conceptual clarity and shrewd maneuvers are necessary to combat neo-fascism, a powerful social movement from above. Neo-fascism in India, inspired by German Nazism and Italian Fascism of the inter-war period-…
India has seen the fascist rise with RSS-BJP led government in power since 2014. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a cadre based organization with its inspirations from Mussolini’s fascist movement…
Orientation Mythology and folklore can be used for political and religious purposes whether they be to support socialism or fascism. What was going on at the end of the 19th century…
A belated meeting of intellectuals called at the behest of the public. Ladies and gentlemen, since history is being manufactured in India, academicians have been busy resolving a dilemma around…
Orientation Purpose of this article Almost 2 years ago I wrote an article called Aryan Right-Wing Mythology for the New Age based on the work of Robert Ellwood (The Politics of Myth).…
To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to go back to the end of the First World War and…
Background Emergence of the "new global far-right" or "ultra-right" or "radical right" integrating itself with neofascism is on the ascendance today. Though the term “far right” is used to refer…
Politics has always been, as Mark Twain put it : " The last refuge of scoundrels." It seems that, in super rich controlled American politics, it's simply selling the public…
I’ve been arguing now for a year and a half that the enactment of bold new climate policies—bold enough to quickly drive US greenhouse-gas emissions down to zero—can succeed only…
One day when I was about six, I was walking with my dad in New York City. We noticed that someone had stuck little folded squares of paper under the…
The Nazis loved to prime the pump with their rituals to keep the ' natives' hyped up. They had their mass rallies with hundreds of thousands attending. They had those…
Approaching RSS Fascism BJP with 180 million-membership (as claimed by it in 2019) and wielding India’s state power today is the political tool of RSS, the longest-running and biggest fascist…
Let's put Covid aside and address the 2nd most heinous ( yes, I use that term) and deadly epidemic facing us all. This disease had always, it seems, been around…
The failure of the neoliberal order—which continues to ignore the needs and aspirations of the people—gives fuel to an ascendant far right that feeds on the despair and humiliation of…
It is often said that RSS follows Mussolini, Hitler. To what extend it is true? Hitler and Mussolini were individuals. RSS is a collective, an organisation created by a caste.…
Reports of women joining far-right movements have vexed many feminist scholars across the world. Their presence in neo-fascist neo-Nazi movements raised many questions insofar as such movements tend to denigrate…
What alt-right guru Steve Bannon failed to create, German taxpayers have just stepped in to revive: a Nationalist International. Thanks to the German government, the far right is about to…
Jason Stanley in the book titled ‘How fascism works: The politics of us and them’ describes fascist politics as characterized by ten aspects. The different headings under which it is…
One of our nation's greatest novelists, Sinclair Lewis once wrote that " When Fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." Are we…
Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election were unprecedented in U.S. history. When his Big Lie about widespread voter fraud, more than 60 lawsuits, and pressure on state officials…
As I view the new Frontline documentary American Insurrection I can see how terribly important ( in not a good sense ) the wearing of uniforms is. As a student…
We live in dangerous times. Neo-fascism is on the rise in many parts of the world, combining the savagery of the market with authoritarian forms of xenophobia. The combinatorial power…
With the rise of various sorts of neo-fascisms all over the world, a moralistically framed liberal response to the former’s religio-fanaticism has become common. Based on the traditional foundations of…
Bear with me, scrupulous historians, as I try to run through some questions and parallels between centuries that I hope will enrich the essential debate on how to confront the…
Written by Thomas Klikauer and Norman Simms Most people have some idea about what fascism is. Fascism’s Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the original fascism, was invented in Italy in the 1920s.…
An exact replay of history is not likely, but while specific “failed” actors leave the stage, class forces survive to enact the same drama another day. In Joachim Fest’s fine…
India, the largest parliamentary democracy in the world, celebrated its 73rd Independence Day on Saturday, August 15. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as per the protocol, addressed the 1.3 billion people…
In a haunting memoir, Piera Sonnino has narrated her devastating experience as a twenty-two-year Italian Jewish woman. She lost her parents and three brothers in the Auschwitz concentration camp in…
In recent times, the term ‘fascism’ has become so widely used that it has become difficult to define it precisely. It is often used as a metaphor by the fiercest…
About 85 years ago, Spanish fascists murdered Federico Garcia Lorca (1898 – 1936), the most important Spanish dramatist of the twentieth century who said “Spain is the only country in…
First off, this writer is simply a Socialist- not a Marxist or Trotskyite or Stalinist, Leninist or whatever flavor of left wing tastes there are. All of them are categorically…
The continuing rise of fascism around the world is drawing increasing attention particularly as it takes firmer grip within national societies long seen to have rejected it. Some recent…
It’s their strutting. That detestable image of the strutting that links them, the strutting and prancing Fascists and their swaggering and parading military cousins, up front for their conveniently concealed…
Donald Trump’s obvious affection for authoritarians is prompting worried comparisons of our polarized country to the polarized Germany of the 1920s and ’30s. Since I’m known to see in polarization…
Fascism appeals directly to the lowest human emotions. Fascism calls up the devils of tribalism and nationalism. Therefore it is fundamentally antisocial and destructive. At the same time, the low,…
At the outset please let me clarify that I am an Indian, I love my nation and I stand up straight and attentive every time the national anthem is played.…
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