fascism

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  11/21/2022
  

  Robin Kelley: Fascism Doesn't End Because People "Come to Their Senses"

  The historian discusses the ongoing threat of the antidemocratic far right, despite the failure of the "red wave" in the midterms, abetted by the willingness of many Democrats to cave to panics about crime. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  11/17/2022
  

  Boston's Role in the Antisemitic Right of the 1930s and 1940s

  Professor Charles Gallagher discusses the Christian Front, a local branch of followers of Father Charles Coughlin, that pushed a variety of antisemitic and nativist political positions in Boston between the World Wars. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  11/4/2022
  

  The Fascism Debate is Over; Fascism Won

  by Jonathan M. Katz

  Academic hair-splitting about the applicability of the F-word to the MAGA phenomenon has not served the cause of democracy well. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  11/7/2022
  

  Beschloss, Ben-Ghiat on the Stakes of the Midterms

  NBC Presidential Historian Michael Beschloss and NYU History Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat discuss the concept of fascism and the danger facing the U.S with American Voices host Alicia Menendez. 

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• 10/30/2022
  

  The US Response to the Holocaust Was Part of a Longer Pattern of Appeasing Fascism

  by Roger Peace

  The Roosevelt administration's refusal to accept large numbers of Jewish refugees was of a piece with a pattern of diplomatic and economic solicitousness toward Nazi Germany. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/25/2022
  

  A Pro-Nazi Camp Run by the German American Bund Subject of New Play

  The Long Island town of Yaphank was eager to erase the memory of Camp Siegfried, which closed after the American entry into World War II. Playwright Bess Wohl wants to use it as a warning about the seductive potential of ideology. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10/27/2022
  

  Spain's New Citizenship Law for Exiles from Franco Portends Massive Return from Latin America

  Between the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and the end of the dicatorship in 1978, an estimated 2 million Spaniards fled political persecution by leaving the country. 

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• SOURCE: Saturday Evening Post
  10/10/2022
  

  Journalist Dorothy Thompson's Warnings About Fascism – Abroad and at Home

  by Ben Railton

  After being expelled as a journalist from Germany for criticizing Hitler, Dorothy Thompson worked to make clear to Americans what fascist movements stood for and how they could take root in the soil of racism and nativism here. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  10/5/2022
  

  Fascists' PR Plan? Distance from Associations with Jewish Genocide

  by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

  Despite the efforts of denialists, the Holocaust remains a significant obstable to public acceptance of fascism. Contemporary far-right politicians have adopted the position that genocide was a step too far beyond an otherwise good ideology. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/27/2022
  

  The "Stolen Babies" of Fascist Spain Seek the Truth

  Some estimate that tens of thousands of babies were taken from poor mothers and secretly sold to elite Catholic families, with compliant government officials providing documentary cover. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  9/27/2022
  

  There Are Two Ways America Can Go After January 6

  by Thomas Zimmer

  In some respects, the January 6 attack resembles the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. What should concern us is what could happen if the Justice Department decides to give similarly lenient treatment to the Capitol conspirators and their leader. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/26/2022
  

  Do the Italian Elections Reflect a Turn to Fascism or Cynicism?

  Giorgio Meloni's electoral success may simply reflect Italians' frustrations with national leadership more than a permanent shift, argues political analyst Yascha Mounk. 

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  9/24/2022
  

  What Explains Fascism's Durable Roots in Italy?

  The success of a party with historical connections to fascists who survived the Second World War raises important questions about why Italians justify voting for the hard right. 

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• 9/18/2022
  

  El Caudillo: Colonialist Violence and the Rise of Francisco Franco

  by Giles Tremlet

  A new book on Spanish history includes an examination of the influence of colonialism and conservative Catholicism on the authoritarian worldview and political ruthlessness of Francisco Franco. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  9/1/2022
  

  Historically Speaking, Biden's "Semi-Fascist" Description of MAGA is Correct

  by Federico Finchelstein

  The global authoritarian movement, of which MAGA is a part, is becoming increasingly intolerant of democracy and committed to fighting imagined threats to the nation. It's an ominous direction that tracks with the past rise of fascist regimes. 

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• SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
  8/9/2022
  

  You Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Gotta Hand it To America Firsters

  by Eric Rauchway

  Critics of American aid to Ukraine have misconstrued the history of FDR's "Lend-Lease" aid to Britain and the USSR as a factor that pushed the world into total war. It's worth considering the political affiliations of people who made that argument in 1941. 

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• SOURCE: Jacobin
  8/9/2022
  

  Mario Fiorentini (1918-2022): The Last Surviving Italian Partisan

  by David Broder

  After Nazi German occupied post-Mussolini Rome, Fiorentini escaped from prisons four times during twenty months of anti-Nazi struggle. He remained an important witness for a society prone to forgetting the horrors of far-right politics.

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• SOURCE: In Case of Emergency (Substack)
  8/5/2022
  

  It's Not Hypocrisy When It's Fascism

  by William Horne

  The right is acting to advance a white Christian nationalist agenda through any means necessary, and has no regard for whether its actions match its stated principles if those actions advance their agenda. 

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• 7/31/2022
  

  Kathryn Olmsted's "Newspaper Axis" Shows Media Extremism Nothing New

  by Kathryn Smith

  FDR's success in promoting the New Deal and rallying Americans to the defense of Europe against fascism was a triumph over the nation's right-wing newspaper barons. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  7/24/2022
  

  Trump's Reelection Threatens a Politicized Civil Service

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Since 1883, the federal civil service has been protected from the old spoils system by rules for merit-based hiring and promotion. Trump has threatened to revert to a system of rewards for loyalists and punishment for enemies, without regard for performing the public's business.