Philosophy of Antifascism
Philosophy of Antifascism On January 20th, 2017, during an interview on the streets of Washington D.C., white nationalist Richard Spencer was punched by an anonymous antifascist. How might this kind…
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Philosophy of Antifascism
On January 20th, 2017, during an interview on the streets of Washington D.C., white nationalist Richard Spencer was punched by an anonymous antifascist. How might this kind of militant action be conceived of, or justified, philosophically? The moment was caught on video and quickly went viral, and soon "punching Nazis" was a topic of heated public debate.
Through the existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon and Sartre, this book identifies the philosophical reasons for the political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists. Can we find a deep commitment to antifascism in the history of philosophy? In addition, using the work of Jacques Ranci re, it argues that the alt-right and the far right aren't a kind of politics at all, but rather forms of parapolitical and paramilitary mobilization aimed at re-entrenching the power of the state and capital. Devin