What is Fascism?

Fascism is a form of extreme right-wing ideology that celebrates the nation or the race as an organic community transcending all other loyalties. It emphasizes a myth of national or racial rebirth after a period of decline or destruction. To this…

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Social movements need an infrastructure to survive

The political Right currently runs the country. That’s very annoying, but pretending it isn’t true is foolhardy. What is truly annoying is that in the late 1970s some of us were giving speeches and writing articles explaining that rightists intended…

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Repression and Ideology: The Legacy of Discredited Centrist/Extremist Theory

Repression and Ideology: The Legacy of Discredited Centrist/Extremist Theory By Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons Table of Contents: Introduction Part One:Two Flawed Theories…

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What’s Wrong With the Right?

Book covers of the two books reviewed in this article

I grew up in a right-wing, white, lower middle-class Southern Baptist world, where Mother tried desperately to raise her daughters to become “ladies.” Both great-grandfathers had been poor foot soldiers for the slaveholding Confederacy. My…

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