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Dec 10 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
A thread bringing together some thoughts about #fascism from the last decade.
Six years ago, I published a list of political advice following Trump's election, which became the pamphlet "On Tyranny." The history of #fascism was important in that advocacy. I wrote then that "post-truth is pre-fascism," which has proven true.
vox.com/conversations/…
This article of mine, from January 2021, explores the elements of #fascism in Trump's big lie and coup attempt.
nytimes.com/2021/01/09/mag…
This article on Russian #fascism from 5 years ago treats the influence of Ivan Ilyin's fascist theory on Putin. Ilyin's ideas, down to the anti-Satanism that is Russia's current casus belli, are prominent in Russian media. Putin last quoted Ilyin on 9/30
nybooks.com/online/2018/03…
The centrality of the category #fascism in the Ukrainian critical discussion of Russia is overlooked. This essay from the spring treats the particular Ukrainian concept of #ruscism or #rashyzm, & what it reveals about conceptual reach of Ukrainian language
nytimes.com/2022/04/22/mag…
Russia justifies its invasion of Ukraine by claiming to be refighting WWII as the liberator. In fact, its methods repeat those of the Axis powers. Projection of one's own #fascism on others is known as schizofascism. For background see my Road to Unfreedom
hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/rus…

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1/6. The Russian invasion of Ukraine is also, in a sense, a Russian imperial war on its own non-Russian minorities.
2/6. In the first offensive the soldiers sent to die were largely Asians.
3/6. In the mobilisation the people forced to serve will also be largely Asians.
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