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Ben Rosenzweig
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Ornithological materialist. Only the future might be outside.
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Hardly radical people were grasping why his attitudes are awful over a hundred and thirty years ago.

Excerpt from John Graham Brooks, 'The Future Problem of Charity and the Unemployed', in the July 1894 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
You think maybe Repacholi might be giving a partial view so one-sided as to be false about all of the assistance he says he offered and the supposed refusal of people to engage for absolutely no reason based on nothing, before he worked so diligently to try to make their lives worse?
Excerpted from a larger discussion of the Totenkopf skull symbol and contemporary far Right iconography, in Cynthia Miller-Idriss's 2017 Princeton University Press book, The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany.

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There had similarly, obviously, been no conditions put on the use of arms when Israel became such a significant military supplier to the South African Apartheid regime in the '70s and '80s, while the UN was trying to impose sanctions on the white supremacist state.
Excerpt from Sunil Dasgupta and Stephen P. Cohen, 'Arms Sales for India: How Military Trade Could Energize U.S.-Indian Relations', in the March/April 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs.
Israel being involved in a remarkable portion of India's military expenditure predates the far Right takeover of the Indian state - this just continued and expanded during the Modi regime, with Israel conveniently not putting human rights-related conditions on arms and military-related sales.
And this is excerpted from a larger discussion of the Totenkopf and contemporary far Right iconography, in Cynthia Miller-Idriss's 2017 Princeton University Press book, The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany.
I'm not an expert on far Right tattoos, but I did come across this in a discussion of a Russian group, the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers, in Alexandar Mihailovic's 2023 University of Wisconsin Press book, Illiberal Vanguard: Populist Elitism in the United States and Russia.
I'm not disagreeing about this guy; it was more how questions of class seemed to be being implicitly framed more broadly.
I don't know if Emma V. was exactly arguing that a Nazi tattoo is itself a sign of working class authenticity, though I've only seen the bit you posted. But otherwise yes, I would agree.
Just incidentally, though not really, did you see the batshit crazy submission that IPA spin-off the 'Australian Environment Foundation' put in to the Senate Inquiry into Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy?

Way more explicitly Trumpian/UK Reform adjacent politics than I expected.
Using economic desperation and educational exclusion as motors for military recruitment is after all a deliberate and central part of their strategies, alongside propaganda often invoking machismo and internalised compulsory patriotism and at least implicitly often imperial exceptionalism.
I think she's noting that the US has a relatively enormous military overwhelmingly recruited from the working class via economic draft but with large parts saturated in a spectrum of overlapping far Right cultures, and people don't disappear after leaving the military.
According to Haaretz, this is "day 746" of "Israel at war".
A government in the hands of a party which has been reconstituted by merging empty careerist ambitions into the urgent political project of dismantling any possibility of any actual Left influence on government which might be viewed as a potential threat to existing patterns of power and privilege.
Excerpt from John Graham Brooks, 'The Future Problem of Charity and the Unemployed', in the July 1894 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Is she really pretending to believe that decisions of the Iranian state are determined by whether people in Melbourne are able to gather for peaceful public protests?

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6/ 'This excerpt addresses the place of Active Clubs in global neo-Nazi and accelerationist political strategy, emphasising Australia's role and contributions to its success.'

CW: includes extreme references to racist hatred and sexual violence.

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Active Clubs & Accelerationists - Neo-Nazi tactics and strategies in Australia
Excerpt from our submission to the Senate inquiry Right wing extremist movements in Australia. On July 24, 2024, at the Senate Committee...
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A video from not that long ago by Kat Abughazaleh, on 'How Chicago Labor History Teaches Us To Fight Fascism Today'.

Oh, and she's running a serious and impressive campaign for Congress.

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How Chicago Labor History Teaches Us To Fight Fascism Today | Kat Abughazaleh For Illinois
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Before his death, Bernard Stiegler was an interesting observer of contemporary politics, but I don't think anyone has translated into English either his book on the French National Front, or his book about why Greta Thunberg is important and admirable... Am I right?
In some countries, 'disrespect for the state' or to its officials can join the ideas of 'being a criminal' and 'supporting terrorism' to become a politico-legal category so vague that entire political oppositions, indeed whole ethnicities, can be made to fit through sheer repetitive assertion.
But here's an excerpt about 2021 from H. Samy Alim, Casey Philip Wong, and Jeff Chang's 'Making Freedom Move(s): Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures', in the 2023 University of California Press collection, Freedom Moves: Hip Hop Knowledges, Pedagogies, and Futures.
And of course you can't read too much about the lead-up to the French Revolution without coming across people subject to repression by the monarchical state on the basis of having allegedly 'insulted the king', which could be a quite broad category when the state felt that that was useful.