Spätfaschismus - Book

Late fascism is the afterlife and continuation of colonialism and slavery, the authoritarian freedom of the settler and soldier. It is the anti-Semitic pseudo-revolt against the abstract power of capital and the nostalgic fantasy of societies that have become historyless. It is gender panic and trans hostility. It is neoliberal and reactionary. Late fascism follows no instructions and no historical analogy. It has its own ideas of freedom and plurality, sexuality and utopia. Only if it is recognized in its contradictions and transformations can it be combated and ways of life based on solidarity be set against it.

From the archives of anti-fascist thought, from the Frankfurt School to Black Abolitionism (and many more), Toscano brings to light the elements of a theory of fascism that makes it tangible as a social dynamic that precedes the European fascisms of the 20th century - and which, as a constant potential in racist-patriarchal capitalism, survives to this day.