BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES There are a number of things that have been great about the United States of America: Social Security is great! Medicare and Medicaid are great! Having more people with affordable access to healthcare as opposed to fewer people is great! A safety net for the poor is great! Good public education…
BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES The vast majority of Germans who supported Nazism considered themselves to be very normal and patriotic people and good Christians. The vast majority of Americans who supported the genocide of indigenous peoples considered themselves to be normal and patriotic people and good Christians. The vast majority of Americans who supported slavery…
BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES The following words from Hannah Arendt have been haunting me as we continue to see the rise of authoritarian and xenophobic nationalism in the United States, Europe, and even in Brazil: “It was the nature of the Nazi movement that it kept moving, becoming more radical with each passing month, but…
BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES A global rise in fascism and other forms of nationalistic authoritarianism is a rather predictable phenomenon in a world moving towards ecological and economic collapse caused by an extractivist capitalism that is unsustainable for both people and the planet. As the world economy becomes more and more unstable and as our…
BY MARK Y.A. DAVIES History shows that if you give fascists an inch, they will take a mile, and they never play by the agreed upon rules of justice and decency that we often naively think will protect us from them. We cannot cajole, cater to, covertly control, or compromise with fascists. We cannot quietly…
