Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement
The struggle against fascism is a widely accepted
part of the revolutionary struggle, but even the most radical activists
often sound like liberals when explaining the hows and whys of anti-fascism.
Or else use the word in such a way that it has only a vague meaning as something
very evil (fascist cops, fascist cutbacks, fascist State repression, etc.)
.
The essays in Confronting Fascism are an attempt to grapple
with this situation. Breaking with established Left practice, this book
attempts to deal with the questions of fascism and anti-fascism in a serious
and non-dogmatic manner. Attention is paid to to the class appeal of fascism,
its continuities and breaks with the "regular" far-right and also even with
the Left,
the ways in which the fascist movement is flexible and the ways in which
it isn't. Left failures, both in opposing fascism head-on, and also in providing
a viable alternative to right-wing revolt, are also dealt with at length.
The lived experiences of anti-fascist activists inform this work, and
more attention is paid to actual historical developments and facts than
to neat theories that explain everything but only coincidentally intersect
with reality. Understanding the relationship of fascism, the State, left
reformism and what it means to be revolutionary are priorities in a world
where it seems increasingly true that those who do not advance will have
to retreat.
Table of Contents
1) Introduction, by Xtn2) Fascism & Anti-Fascism, by Don Hamerquist
(this section of this book is available online here)
- History
- Crisis?
- Nature of Fascist Danger
- Fascist Anti-Capitalism
- Third Position
- Fascism & White Supremacy
- Militance, and Militarization
- Organizing Section
- Spontaneous Anti-Fascism
- Culture
- What Will Do As A Conclusion
- Appendix
(this section of this book is available online here)
- Fascism in Unfamiliar Drag
- Hamerquist's Main Thesis
- Valuing New Ideas
- Misusing the Buzz of Fascism
- Different Forms of Capitalist Rule
- Being Both Revolutionary and Pro-Capitalist
- Working Class Poverty not the Root of Fascism
- The “Classical” Fascism was Radical Enough
- Big Business did not Run the Fascist State
- A New Barbarism?
- Fascist Success & the Capiatlist State
- Trends Toward Unexpected Fascist Infections?
- Unanswered Questions
- Footnotes
5) Revolutionary Anti-Fascism: some strategic questions, by Mark Salotte