Fascism (with Alberto Toscano)

The HBS hosts chat with Alberto Toscano about the long shadow of racial fascism.

Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the word "fascism" has moved from the historian’s archives to the editorial pages of newspapers. The point of comparison has generally been drawn from European history, but drawing our analogies and checklists from the trajectory of fascism in Europe obscures both the connection between what is happening now in American politics with the history of racism and racial capitalism in this country, and the manner in which we might be seeing an entirely new form of fascism emerge. Alberto Toscano argues that to understand the contemporary form of fascism in the US, we are better served by looking at the history of black radicalism, from Black Panthers to the contemporary prison abolitionist movement.

How does studying that history change our understanding of fascism?

Full episode notes at this link:
https://hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/episode-86-fascism-with-alberto-toscano

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