Donald Trump: The Worst Kind of Populist
Every year, the movers and shakers of our times come together for a few days in Davos, a swanky resort of literary fame in the Swiss Alps thanks to Thomas…
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Part Two: Hegel and Fascism
Introduction As noted in the last blog, Hegel’s ideas, before their denunciation as features of a militarist culture, were welcomed among Liberals in Britain. This can be understood in light…
Potential Lessons From Interwar Europe To Combat Fascism
Fascism appeared as a governing force in a particular period – the interwar one – and in a particular set of places – some countries, but not others. What many…
How Fascists Used Summer Camps To Recruit Young People
‘Summer camps … helped to integrate enthusiastic young people more firmly into the movement, shaping their lives by giving them an unforgettable summer and convincing them that by becoming fascists…
Part One: Hegel and Fascism
Introduction In his 1945 work The Open Society and its Enemies, Karl Popper famously attacked what he saw as the intellectual roots of fascism. Tracing a lineage from Plato to…
How COVID and Syria Conspiracy Theories Introduce Fascism to the Left Part 3: The Red-Brown Media Spectrum
Part 1 of this series outlined the key concepts and context surrounding red-brownism and looked at some examples of its right-leaning incantations. Part 2 dove into the chaotic world of…
Revisiting the Authoritarian Personality: Pseudoconservatism and QAnon
In his latest piece on Adorno’s Authoritarian Personality, CARR Doctoral Fellow, Andrew Woods, unpacks Adorno’s definition of pseudoconservatism and determines whether we can use this concept to understand those who follow…
Did a French Far-Right Thinker Predict 2020?
The year 2020 has thrown the world into disarray, with a severe pandemic creating many unforeseen challenges. The COVID-19 plague has so far infected nearly 30 million people worldwide, with…
How COVID and Syria Conspiracies Introduce Fascism to the Left. Part I: The Red-Brown Media Spectrum
Introduction Why is a supposedly US veteran’s organization, co-founded by someone active with the National Socialist Movement, spreading conspiracies about COVID-19 and Syria? Why is that same organization in collaboration…
When All Your Friends Are Fascists
The first-person perspective on the spread of fascism provided in “Rhinoceros” is valuable because it shows how disorienting it is for non-fascists. The playwright Eugene Ionesco spent most of his…