Brief: Antifascist Woodshed

Conspirituality

Feb 22, 2025•35 min

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Episode description

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