fascism – The Barricade

The Supreme Court’s Long March towards the Republic of Gilead

Thomas Klikauer
Gender issues
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The Republic of Gilead is a fictional destination of a crypto-fascistoid state – showing signs of becoming fascistic without yet being fascist – where religio-fundamentalism has mutated into a Divine Republic. The Republic of Gilead is part of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, The...

The Romanian Fascist Feeling

We cannot understand the past without understanding our present. This apparently paradoxical statement tries to deal with the revivement of various and multifarious forms of fascism today. In contemporary Romania, more than thirty years after...

Fifty Shades of Brown

Walter Baier
Analysis
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Europe consists of about 50 states, 27 of which are members of the European Union. So, what we see on the far right are ‘50 shades of brown’, so to speak. It is doubtful that...

The Right Normalizes Fascism. The Best Response: Normalize It Back

The problem with our public discussion of fascism is that we trot out the term every time the right turns to violence, and then we withdraw the term when the violence ends. We keep it...

The January 6th ‘putsch’, QAnon, and the mythopoetics of the far-right

J.G. Michael
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Less than two months ago many Americans were throwing hosannas and celebrating if not the election of Joe Biden to the White House then the defeat of Donald J. Trump and, presumably, by extension the...

Nur für Heterosexuelle? Major Polish pro-government media outlet launches a shocking Nazi-esque ca..

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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The masks have dropped: Dr Goebbels, the infamous Nazi propagandist-in-chief of the Third Reich must be cheering in his grave. The most recent instigation by Gazeta Polska (Polish Gazette) smells of hitlerite intention. #StrefaWolnaOdLGBT #naklejka...

Another ‘war hero’ honored in Lithuania: A nazi-collaborating priest, of course

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Baltic states
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[caption id="attachment_1507" align="alignleft" width="300"] Efraim Zuroff, source: Wikimedia Commons[/caption] The scandalous act was first reported in the Jerusalem Post by Efraim Zuroff. He is an American-born, well-known Israeli historian and Nazi hunter who has played...

Desecrated anniversary: Polish proto-fascists and anti-Semites march at the gates of Auschwitz

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Hundreds of journalists, Holocaust survivors and their family members from around the world, who gathered to commemorate the shut down of one of the most symbolic places of the Holocaust, were exposed to a bizarre...

Should Polish left be afraid?

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Human rights and civic liberties
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A few days after scandalous police intervention during academic conference on Karl Marx and his legacy, Polish Minister of Interior offered an apology to the university. Polish left-wing activists met this with joy, but they...

Will the Polish ‘Mein Kampf’ be out soon? No, not a translation – a new book

Boyan Stanislavski
Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
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Jacek Międlar, well known Polish catholic fundamentalist, racist and antisemitic figure idolized by the Polish right-wing youth made a new shocking statement. He will write a book called 'My Struggle'. In the past he called for...