Late Fascism

Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

De: Alberto Toscano

Narrado por: Michael Page

Late Fascism turns to theories of fascism produced in the past century, testing their capacity to illuminate our moment and challenging many of the commonplaces that debate on this extremely charged term devolves into. It can be tempting for any contemporary assessment of fascism to reach for historical analogy.

Rather than treating fascism as an unrepeatable phenomenon or identifying it with a settled configuration of European parties, regimes, and ideologies, Toscano approaches fascism as a problem and a process, one that is intimately linked to capitalism's demands for domination. Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of racial fascism, Late Fascism makes clear the limits of identifying fascism simply with the political violence of bygone European regimes. From the "Great Replacement" to campaigns against critical race theory and "gender ideology," today's global far-right is launching lethal panics about the threats to traditional political, sexual, and racial regimes. Late Fascism allows us to rediscover some truly inspiring anti-fascist thinkers, rooted in their turn in largely anonymous collective practices of worldmaking against domination, traditions of the oppressed that remain a resource for those set on dismantling the hierarchies and segregations that the partisans of Order and Tradition seek to revive and reimpose.

©2023 Alberto Toscano (P)2023 Tantor Media

Sorry, Too Wordy for Audio

I don't normally write negative reviews, but since the corporate bots declared this upon purchase "Not Eligible for Return," I'll warn off others. The book itself is very useful, offering a good survey of the post-war critical literature on fascism. The author wrests the concept of fascism away from the "totalitarian" theme of those like Arendt and links it to state adaptations of libertarian capitalism. This is a view I certainly share and one that is especially pertinent today. Unfortunately, the author's style does not lend itself to the audio form. It's not that the ideas are too complex or abstract, it's just the writing. The author appears to loathe conciseness and relish the recursive nature of language. He packs as many words as possible into each clause and as many clauses as possible into each sentence. By the time you wind your way to the end of a sentence, the original subject is far away and long forgotten. I was unable to retain enough to assess the originality of the content itself. Try the print version.

Academic - Not for the Layperson

This is my second book I've read on fascism. I ordered this when the author went on Democracy Now. I don't think the author wrote this for the average reader. I'm not sure if the sophisticated language adds value for me personally. The parts I understood (I think) had sound analysis