Since at least the 2016 election the word fascism has emerged from the historical archive to contemporary political debates. This question has primarily been one about the identity of fascism, what are its minimal characteristics? To what extent can the Trump administration be considered fascist, and so on? We discussed some of this last season with Alberto Toscano. As much as this question of definition is important, a no less important question is what to do in the face of fascism. How to respond. It is on this point that the opposition to fascism divides rather sharply between those who argue that fascism must be countered with the norms of civil society, debated, discussed and defeated in the marketplace of ideas and those who argue that the violence of fascism must be met with counter-violence.

In this episode, we are joined by Devin Shaw, who teaches at Douglas College and is the author of Philosophy of Antifascism: Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy.

In the episode, we discuss the following authors, texts, ideas, and creations:

• J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
• Cunk on Earth on Netflix

• Maine Root Ginger Brew

• Mabogo Percy Moore, Sartre on Contingency: Antiblack Racism and Embodiment

• Rowman & Littlefield’s series Living Existentialism

• The Three Way Fight

• Georgi Dimitrov on fascism

• Todd May, The Political Thought of Jacques Rancière

• Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence

• John Rawls’ liberal political theory, as found in A Theory of Justice

• Don Hammerquist, Confronting Fascism

• The Sojourner Truth Organization

• Devin Shaw, “Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight”

• James Boggs, The American Revolution

• Etienne Balibar on neoracism

• The (sad) demographics of academic philosophy in the U.S. 

• Robert F. Williams, Negroes with Guns

• Charles E. Cobb, Jr., This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get you Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible

• Akinyele Umoja, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

• Stanislav Wysotsky, American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism

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