Fascism: Modern Threat or Facade? Featuring Alberto Toscano

About this episode

In this episode, Emily Williams interviews Alberto Toscano about modern fascism and anti-fascist resistance, exploring historical and contemporary perspectives.

Fascism: Modern threat or facade? On the fourth episode of Beyond Voting, we dive deep with Alberto Toscano, critical theorist, professor in the School of Communications at Simon Fraser University, and also co-director of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. We spoke with Alberto about what modern fascist movements look like, where we see real examples of anti-fascist resistance, and what we can learn - particularly from Black radical traditions- about how to fight back against the spread of new fascisms in the United States and beyond. So tell us, have you fully confronted or accepted fascism as a reality? How do you plan to turn your ideas and principles into action? Tell us on IG @arcus.center or drop it in your 5 star review of the show. And please visit us at arcuscenter.kzoo.edu Check out Alberto Toscano’s latest book, Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis Check out these authors and topics Alberto mentioned in the conversation: - The Politics of The Multi-Racial Right - Daniel Martinez Hosang & Joseph Lowndes - When W.E.B DuBois Made a Laughing Stock of a White Supremacist - The New Yorker - Suburban…

People in this episode

Host: Emily Williams

Guest: Alberto Toscano

Topics covered

• fascism
• anti-fascism
• Black radical traditions
• political theory
• resistance movements

Keywords

• fascism
• anti-fascism
• Alberto Toscano
• political theory
• Black radical traditions
• resistance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Simon Fraser University, Goldsmiths, University of London, The New Yorker

Books & works: Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis, The Politics of The Multi-Racial Right, When W.E.B DuBois Made a Laughing Stock of a White Supremacist, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction: An Essay Toward a History of the Part Which Black Folk Played in the Attempt to Reconstruct Democracy,1860-1880

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