Brief: Antifascist Woodshed

Education / Public service alert:

Matthew critically reviews six books that define fascist eras and recount how they have been opposed. A kind of “here we are, now what?” episode that hopefully interrupts the doomscroll with the sobriety of some practical considerations.

• Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny (2017)
• Robert Paxton, Anatomy of Fascism (2004)
• Paul Mason, How to Fight Fascism (2018)
• Mark Bray, Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook (2017)
• Curzio Malaparte: Technique de Coup d’Etat (1931)
• Spencer Sunshine: 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists (2021)

Formats range from popular nonfiction to academic history to pragmatic field guide. Politics range from liberal to anarchist. More feminist and non-white sources to be reviewed soon.

Show Notes

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder 

Timothy Snyder’s Bad History | City Journal 

Robert O. Paxton - The Anatomy of Fascism 

Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind. - The New York Times 

How to Stop Fascism 

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook  

Curzio Malaparte - The Technique Of Revolution 

40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists — Spencer Sunshine

Joyful Militancy | The Anarchist Library 

Let This Radicalize You | HaymarketBooks.org 

Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life — Natasha Lennard

DISCOURSE ON COLONIALISM Aime Cesaire Translated by Joan Pinkham

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