The “F” word has been thrown around a lot in the age of Donald Trump. From President Trump’s “Muslim ban,” to bipartisan support for migrant-filled concentration camps, to the failed insurrection at the Capitol building in January of this year, is “fascism” a useful term for understanding the political reality we’ve been living in? Are we misapplying the term in ways that drain it of its historical meaning? In the first installment of an ongoing series investigating the contours of fascism in the past and present, Jacqueline Luqman speaks with international human rights activist and National Organizer for Black Alliance for Peace Ajamu Baraka about how we must decenter twentieth-century Europe in order to gain a fuller understanding of what fascism is and where it exists.

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20 thoughts on “Seeing (and fighting) fascism beyond twentieth-century Europe”
  1. Things like the Ohio train disaster happened because Biden didn't support the railroad unions in concordance with neoliberal oversight and anti Labor paradigms

  2. You're trying to confuse people Caucasians are not a race ,and human beings should not be treated like we are!

  3. To all the pedants and word cops out there, please think about the message being communicated, it's content, before muddying the whole conversation with valueless nit picking.

    We are here to have a conversation not to derail one.

  4. Watching black american explain to me what fascism is when I live near former death camp… get real.
    I don't like you people trying to invent stuff to fit your narratives…

  5. After my ten years in the military I became a fanatic peace lover, but trust me I'll pick up arms to fight fascism with all means necessary……

  6. Please look into the corruption, racism, and misogyny of professional licensing and its fake regulation. It is an absolute fascism since they are corporations controlled by a very few white men that use the power of the government to protect themselves from competition. The purpose of these licenses is NOT public safety. It is solely to limit competition and supply of owners of corporations and corporations. By limiting the supply of corporations in an industry, those existing corporations get to raise their prices.
    To say that these licensing scams are racist is a huge understatement.
    The corporations get to choose their competition and regulate themselves. The government is just the attack dog that goes after anyone that speaks out on this subject. Bad dog!

  7. Unfortunately this posting chooses to use the word "fascism" to describe various kinds of oppressive, exploitative economic and political systems. But the term actually is more specific to 20th century forms in Europe, beginning with Italy in the early 1920s. Anytime a government becomes oppressive some call it fascist, but this just waters down the true meaning of the term. Neoliberalism, colonialism are just that — not something else.

  8. As Mussolini said, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power"

  9. This video sounds inaccurate in correlating Neo-Liberalism with Fascism. Its discussion about Neo-Liberalism appears accurate however it appears to lose its objectivity in its goal to label Neo-Liberalism as "fascism". Its discussion about the totalitarianism of Big Tech and the US Rogue State is also accurate. However, not all totalitarianism is fascism. In summary, much of the content of this video is accurate & important; however its use of the term "fascism" appears spurious. It should focus on "totalitarianism".

  10. Later, on October 15, 1936, Jesee Owens repeated this allegation when he addressed an audience of African Americans at a Republican rally in Kansas City, remarking: "Hitler didn't snub me—it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram." Wikipedia

  11. I always knew Mark Zuckerberg was NOT to be trusted. He’s LARGELY to blame. The “elites” venerate him as the “father of social media” when IN FACT, he STOLE the idea from MySpace (people hardly remember that platform). That guy duked it out making it seem like he’s original and promoted this culture of conformity starting mid early 2000. This is ALL a collaborative effort, especially when Viacom also went after Napster, and George Bush expanded his spy program using information of citizens’ online/computer activities. It was full on fascism the day he STOKE the Y2K elections. Reagan started it. Bush Sr. paved the way. Brain dead Bush Jr. solidified it (or Karl Rove did- his mastermind). Obama bent over and had this country raped. We are knee deep into fascism. And like the presenters in this news clip states: fascism is insidious. It crosses ALL cultural barriers now. It’s been breeding a climate of conformity since Bush. The Internet offered lots of promises and possibilities for individual growth. But the fascists could not and will not have that. Bernie also helped to shine the light and inspired people globally. And bam, we’re stuck in this pandemic. Now people are having to rely on living off of personal loans and debt even more, and citizens actively participate in this insanity through their ACTIVE compliance. Everyday.

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