An Anti-Fascist Bibliography
It’s high time we read up on antifascism, such as how activists have fought fascism in the past.
Fascism is on the rise around the world, and in the U. S. it’s blatant. I know — I’m stating the obvious. I first became aware of fascism after the 2020 election, when the Supreme Court gave Dubby-Shrubby-Poo the presidency. I became more acutely aware of it in reaction to the 2016 election results.
The need to read books on resistance again hit me extra hard right after the presidential debate — enabling and normalizing fascism and letting that dictator-wannabe spew lies and projecting unchecked. That dictator-wannabe belongs behind bars, not in a presidential race. (I’m all for abolition, but… not in this case. Fascists doing white-collar crime belong behind bars.) Meanwhile, mainstream American media — such as the New York Times — is enabling and normalizing fascism.
I’m old and disabled, so I don’t see myself fighting fascists in the streets. But I can share book reviews and my anti-fascist bibliography online (especially on Medium). Knowledge is power and all that.
I began collecting resistance and anti-fascist books shortly after the 2016 election. I don’t remember when I first began this bibliography, but it was probably circa 2018, after Brat KavaNO joined the Supreme Court, which is now dominated by fascists who…