Defining Fascism

When Republicans blocked the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act on January 19, 2022, they removed the last safety net preventing the U.S.’s plummet toward authoritarianism. As a result, we are at this moment in a state of free-fall, the culmination of a state-level Legislative And Enforcement Landscape that directly mirrors Jim Crow — or as fascism scholar Jason Stanley recently put it, “America is now in fascism’s legal phase.” Although we do have ways of fighting back, the situation is dire. We often hear that the U.S.’s founding documents, courts and institutions make it immune to despotism, but this claim is simply false and erases our country’s troubling history with white supremacy — one the GOP is poised to reinvigorate.

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Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism June 22, 1995

If you're going to call someone a fascist, it helps to know a little about fascism. For example, all who seek to take over the state or curtail their adversaries' freedom of speech may not rightly be called "fascists", writes Matthew Sharpe.

Listen in with SPLC for a panel discussion on the rise of fascism and the role that fascist propaganda plays in the success of extremist leaders and ideologi...

INTERNAL RAINDROP CROSS REFERENCE

A reading list on understanding fascism as a key feature of capitalist liberal nation-states

Lessons from History: What is Fascism?

In the interwar decades, many observers of rising fascism failed to understand what was new about this threat. Clinging to the word fascism to define today’s growing reactionary forces risks falling into the same trap.