It just makes more sense and seems less online than vidya games, also that was the year I started avoiding comment sections cause of all the racism
It just makes more sense and seems less online than vidya games, also that was the year I started avoiding comment sections cause of all the racism
I don't think you can really pinpoint a "beginning" for American fascism. It's been here all along. You may have just noticed it then. The "alt-right" is a term that was coined by Richard Spencer in 2010 but even then it was just one of many attempts to rebrand fascism. I would highly recommend checking out the book Bring The War Home by Kathleen Belew.
FFS this needs repeating over and over again. A lot of people think Hitler started it all, but his work is literally a fanfiction rip off of the United States.
More people need to learn this. They also need to take a more critical eye towards what the USA's interest in occupying Europe and having a foothold in asia against communism was.
Some scholars point to the KKK as the first fascist organization
Robert Evans' The War On Everyone is a really good summary since I can't find a free source for Bring The War Home, they have a lot of overlap but the latter is much much more thorough. Here's a good interview from Sam Seder with Kathleen Belew.
Thanks for that! I've enjoyed RE for years but I didn't know he has an audiobook.
libgen.rs is where it's at. Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
Yes, that's definitely true, but American fascism has always had distinct "flavors" some more noxious than others, like I remember the bigotry of the post-911/Iraq War era even as a kid, and saw how that morphed into the new Tea Party flavor after 2008
2001-2008, 2009-2011, 2012-2015, and 2016-present seems to me like a reasonable breakdown of the majors trends in American fascism, each one triggered by new events that pierced the cultural membrane
Even "white power" was a slogan adopted as a reactionary response to black power movements beginning in the 60s. That and white Christian nationalism are the earliest origins of the modern organized militant racist movements we see now. Seriously though check out that book, I've done a lot of reading on this specific topic trying to understand how we got where we are (and how one of my friends became a Nazi) and while I knew a lot of the broad strokes Belew is very thorough and it includes a lot of details I had not found elsewhere.
I think it's important to try to figure out the distinct forms and origins of the different kinds of fascism we see in america. To truly defeat an enemy, you have to understand their history, ideology, motivations, and concerns. nwoing what caused different people to be actively fascist rather than passively accept fascism will make it easier to know how to deradicalize them or fight active radicalization.
That's why I recommend reading that book. It details the history and evolution of American fascism.
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