Alyosha Goldstein - For Antifascist Futures

Praise for For Antifascist Futures

This extraordinary volume ranges over a planetary geography and deeply engages historical formations and trajectories of fascism and antifascism. The authors, writing in a variety of genres and from many fields of study, illuminate the makings of racialized violence, the role of untruths, post-truths, and ideologies, the afterlives and ongoing effects of colonial force, and the role of capital accumulation in the making of modern varieties of fascism. Every page of For Antifascist Futures forces us to face and reckon with the lacerating effects of fascist power on the body politic

Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and Trade and Time in the Shadows

Globalizing and reframing fascisms on a world scale, this urgent and powerful volume analyzes fascism as the convergence of authoritarian state and extralegal racial nationalist violence responding to the historical and material crises of capitalism and imperialism. The collection constellates a stunning range of antifascist practices, from Black radical internationalism, anticolonial movements, and insurgencies in the Philippines, Palestine, and South Asia, and across Latin America and Africa, on the one hand, to a long history of antifascisms and racial justice movements in the U.S. and Indigenous demands for return of stolen land, on the other.

Lisa Lowe, author of The Intimacies of Four Continents

For Antifascist Futures is a searing and necessary collection for our times. The precise and unsparing indictment of fascismand its enduring entanglements in imperialist and capitalist expansionis the urgent world-making project that we all need. By deftly engaging the analytic of fascism across time and geography, this constellation of intellectually and politically fierce essays narrates a simultaneously sobering and inspiring political vision of internationalist antifascism against authoritarianism. This book is a tour de force.

Harsha Walia, author of Border and Rule and Undoing Border Imperialism

For Antifascist Futures

Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis

Edited by Alyosha Goldstein and Simn Ventura Trujillo

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For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis
Edited by Alyosha Goldstein and Simn Ventura Trujillo

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We would like to express our gratitude to Christine Hong, Neda Atanasoski, Trung PQ Nguyen, and Jane Komori for their labor on and support for the Fascisms special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies 7, no. 1 (Spring 2021) that was the starting point for this book and in which a number of the chapters were first published. The editors and publisher also wish to acknowledge The Resurgent Far Right and the Black Feminist Struggle for Social Democracy in Brazil is republished with permission of John Wiley & Sons, from American Anthropologist, Anthropological Society of Washington, American Ethnological Society, American Anthropological Society 122, no. 1 (2020).

We are also grateful to Malav Kanuga, Josh MacPhee, Erika Biddle-Stavrakos, Nicki Kattoura, and everyone else at Common Notions for their work to bring this book into the world. An extra thanks to Malav for the initial idea to expand the journal issue as a book and for his ideas and encouragement throughout the process. Thanks as well to Dylan Miner for permission to include his artwork New Futures Are Possible Right Now.

Figure 1. Dylan Miner, New Futures Are Possible Right Now, 2020.

1. Alyosha Goldstein and Simn Ventura Trujillo Fascism Now?
   Inquiries for an Expanded Frame
2. APPENDIX
   Vaughn Rasberry Colonial Fascism: A Syllabus

Inquiries for an Expanded Frame

Alyosha Goldstein and Simn Ventura Trujillo

Authoritarian political leaders and violent racist nationalism are a resurgent feature of the present historical conjuncture that will not be resolved by electoral politics or bipartisanship. The widespread support for Donald Trump in the United States, Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, Narendra Modi in India, Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, Recep Tayyip Erdoan in Turkey, and Viktor Orbn in Hungary, among others, is an expansive turn to counterrevolution and punitive governance in an era of escalating ecological crisis, political antagonism, and social uncertainty. Responding to the urgency of the current moment, For Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis explores what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the twenty-first centurys authoritarian convergence. The essays and interviews included in this collection build a critical conversation that centers the material and speculative labor of antifascist, antiracist, and anticolonial social movements and coalitions. These inquiries deliberately connect multiple world contexts to consider what fascism and antifascist movements might mean during the current moment or historically with relevance for the current moment.

For Antifascist Futures examines fascism as a geopolitically diverse series of entanglements with (neo)liberalism, racial capitalism, imperialism, settler colonialism, militarism, carceralism, white supremacy, racist nationalism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and heteropatriarchy. The analytic of fascism situates right-wing reaction within the historical and material crises of imperialism. Racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule. Drawing from these histories and present-day struggles, our invocation of fascism places various iterations of authoritarianism and state and extralegal violence directly in relation to racial and gendered capitalist crisis and the expanded reproduction of imperialism.

This collections emphasis on fascism as a global phenomenon, and on radical internationalist forms of antifascism, is intended to challenge the Eurocentrism common within studies of fascism.