Joseph Amoriello’s Reviews > Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook > Status Update

anti-fascism doesn’t end until fascism is seen to its end. the fight continues across the world until it is rid of the racist nationalists who infect it. we learn from lessons from the past lest we are doomed to repeat them, so fascism cannot continue to exist in any form.

nearly halfway there, even though my reading has been unconventional. hoping this can be done by the end of the year. it is still extremely interesting. it’s very clear that anti fascist action is extremely popular in the global public, but too often the establishment and governing bodies are entirely complacent with fascists and their activities.

i don’t know if it’s the staring at screens and paper all day long or the music i listen to, but i feel like i am going to fall asleep when i read here. it is shocking how popular fascism has been in the past few decades in europe and how much it continues to grow. fascist parties continue to win elections across europe, and the organized establishment left will not counter them. it’s up to the people now

fascism doesn’t disappear. it comes and it goes. and now, as we speak, it’s appearing again. antifascist action is not cohesive or organized, but it is effective. historically, the police will not combat fascism in the us. broad coalitions of people who believe in the prosperity of antiracism and antifascism is what has historically prevailed over skinheads, the klan, and other fascists. it is necessary now.

if you find yourself hearing from someone that the us needs a unified or homogenous cultural identity, that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the country, that the us should be governed by a system built on protestant anglo-saxon values, that “illegal” immigrants are subhuman, then you are speaking to a fascist. their priorities and values have not changed in 100 years. burrito for lunch if you were curious

once again not much progress since it’s during lunch, but i am getting an extremely comprehensive exposition on nazism and fascism that would not be taught in schools, even in germany. fascism never went away, it has existed in its same nature since the 1920s. ww2 helped to weaken it, but it is still visible in many forms, from british anti-immigrant demonstrations sponsored by tories to alt-right rallies in the us

anti-fascist action fails when the left population collapses and combats within its own ranks. if there is no competent and unified left that is committed to anti-fascist action, then fascism will always exist.

i’m back and better than ever. though not too far into this one yet since i started this during my lunch break, the striking similarities between mussolini’s rise to power and subsequent reign are plenty cause for concern in regard to the current united states republican party.