![]() ![]() ![]() Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse-who held that “fascism could happen anywhere,” and that authoritarianism is a “more or less universal modern phenomenon.” Likewise, we concur with Paul Gilroy, who writes that “barbarity can appear anywhere, at any time.” Īccordingly, as we explore these five books, we will confront not only the “brown” fascism indelibly associated with Benito Mussolini, National Socialism (or Nazism), Trumpism, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust, but also Black, “red” (Communist), Syrian, Indian, and Chinese fascism and authoritarianism. In general, we agree with the theorists of the Frankfurt School-like Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. This book review essay seeks to answer this question and explore fascism and the far right by examining five recently published anti-fascist (Antifa) and anti-authoritarian volumes: namely, Lars Rensmann’s own The Politics of Unreason ¡No Pasarán! (2022), edited by Shane Burley Ilham Tohti’s We Uyghurs Have No Say (2022) Luke Cooper’s Authoritarian Contagion: The Global Threat to Democracy (2021) and Charles Reitz’s The Revolutionary Ecological Legacy of Herbert Marcuse (2022). ![]() In The Politics of Unreason (2017), Lars Rensmann poses an important question about fascism and anti-Semitism: namely, are these oppressive phenomena “specific to German or European culture-or rather universal, the byproduct of universal authoritarian phenomena, susceptibilities, and tendencies in modern society. ![]()
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