Nostalgia for what never was
May 1, 2021
My mother hated Stalin�but loved Trotsky. She had�no party affiliation, no friends�with whom to talk politics. � There was only me to listen.�Maybe it was because Trotsky�was Jewish. I don’t… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Fascism
History comes in bad cycles
April 1, 2021
I watched the insurrectionists assault�the capital with Trump flags, anti-Semitic�signs, gas masks, guns and enough�angry hatred to kill those they see � as enemies. War in the streets the man�in… READ MORE
The Brazilian Crisis and the New Authoritarianism
June 1, 2020
Lawfare Is the New Authoritarianism Anthony Robert Pahnke is an assistant professor of international relations at San Francisco State University. Marcelo Milan is an assistant professor of economics and international… READ MORE
German Deunification: Gerhard Schröder, Angela Merkel, and the Liberal Roots of German Neofascism
June 1, 2020
Ingar Solty is a Senior Research Fellow at the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung’s Institute for Critical Social Analysis in Berlin. He is the author and editor of several books, including Auf… READ MORE
Mystified Consciousness
March 1, 2020
Andy Merrifield is an independent scholar and the author of numerous books, including Dialectical Urbanism (Monthly Review Press, 2002), Magical Marxism (Pluto Press, 2011), The Amateur (Verso Books, 2018), and… READ MORE
This Is Not Populism
June 1, 2017
John Bellamy Foster is the editor of Monthly Review. I am concerned with power politics—that is to say, I make use of all means that seem to me to be… READ MORE
The Origins of American Fascism
June 1, 2017
Michael Joseph Roberto formerly taught history at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. He is at work on a book, tentatively titled The Coming of the American Behemoth, forthcoming… READ MORE
Old Malbec in New Bottles: The Return of Neoliberalism in Argentina
June 1, 2017
Kenneth Mitchell is an associate professor of political science and Robert H. Scott is an associate professor of economics, both at Monmouth University. In his 1990 autopsy of the Cold… READ MORE
Neofascism in the White House
April 1, 2017
There is a shadow of something colossal and menacing that even now is beginning to fall across the land. Call it the shadow of an oligarchy, if you will; it… READ MORE