To the editor: Nicholas Goldberg defined fascism as “a terrifying totalitarian movement that plunged the world into an era of near-cataclysmic violence.” Isn’t the sordid spectacle of the recent ...
Conservatism used to mean the conserving of traditions within a particular community. It emphasized maintaining the long-tested practices of a community. But today’s conservatism is a type of market ...
Twenty-first-century fascism is the dictatorship of big money. Finance, fossil fuels giants, other large corporations, and the military-industrial complex, have effectively merged with the state, ...
Fascism is one of the most notorious forms of government, famous for being the government of choice for history’s worse dictatorships. A lesser known fact is that many of these countries had ...
Fascism seems to be all the rage these days. I’ll give you a few examples. Ben Rhodes, who was President Barack Obama’s deputy national security advisor for strategic communications (a title ...
It borders on cliché the number of times historians lament how “fascism” is an over-used term. But Sinclair Lewis, writing about the specter of fascism a century ago, understood something most ...
Elizabeth Schulte reviews the writings of the German revolutionary Clara Zetkin about fascism — and draws out the lessons that they hold for the left today. WITH THE rise of the right internationally, ...
The BBC tries to answer the question in surprisingly good faith and ends up completely lost. The piece reminds me of one of my absolute favorite articles on the subject. Gilbert Allardyce’s “What ...
Left fascism is a reality, not an oxymoron (letter, May 25). Fascism, as a regime, does not exist today. However, fascist methods of suppressing opponents by using violence against them did not ...
It's hard to spend time online without encountering someone calling President Trump a fascist. Trump himself has used the word against his own opponents. Others have used the word to denounce ...