d.z.shaw
@dzshaw.bsky.social
Philosophy Faculty, union negotiator, settler on unceded land. Author of Genealogies of Antifascism, Philosophy of Antifascism, etc. he/him
Most recent book: https://leftwingbooks.net/products/genealogies-of-antifascism-militancy-critique-and-the-three-
Most recent book: https://leftwingbooks.net/products/genealogies-of-antifascism-militancy-critique-and-the-three-
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d.z.shaw
@dzshaw.bsky.social
· Nov 15
The Philosophy of Antifascism: Resources
I no longer blog thanks to Twitter, teaching and other commitments. However, I will dedicate--and hopefully continue to update--this post as...
notes-taken.blogspot.com
I don't blog anymore, but I do have a blog. In my first post in years, I've created a post (which I hope to update over time) with resources and writings related to Philosophy of Antifascism and some things that ended up in Genealogies of Antifascism: notes-taken.blogspot.com/2021/04/the-...
I’m reading Sartre’s The Reprieve (the second volume of the Road to Freedom series) and it’s the most formally experimental piece I’ve read of his.
November 7, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I’m reading Sartre’s The Reprieve (the second volume of the Road to Freedom series) and it’s the most formally experimental piece I’ve read of his.
BHL, reminding us all he’s still full of shit
The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 PM
BHL, reminding us all he’s still full of shit
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4/6... Genealogies of Antifascism by @dzshaw.bsky.social (@kersplebedeb.bsky.social): kersplebedeb.com/posts/new-bo... & Loving Corrections by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (@akpress.org): www.akpress.org/loving-corre...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
4/6... Genealogies of Antifascism by @dzshaw.bsky.social (@kersplebedeb.bsky.social): kersplebedeb.com/posts/new-bo... & Loving Corrections by @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social (@akpress.org): www.akpress.org/loving-corre...
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November is here. Unfortunately in terms of support October was difficult for us as we had a high rate of cancellations and low rate of new subscribers. We're offering 50% off yearly subscriptions through November 9th with the code NOV25 www.patreon.com/c/millennial...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:05 PM
November is here. Unfortunately in terms of support October was difficult for us as we had a high rate of cancellations and low rate of new subscribers. We're offering 50% off yearly subscriptions through November 9th with the code NOV25 www.patreon.com/c/millennial...
I return to this book often. Hamerquist brings his experience from the Sojourner Truth Organization's reconsideration the basis of white supremacy from the early 80s; Sakai is important because he challenges Hamerquist's assumptions about what the working class is. Still very relevant.
"Confronting Fascism" from @kersplebedeb.bsky.social was first published in 2002 but it's theoretical engagements of fascism & anti-fascism remain as relevant and necessary as ever. Of particular interest is Don Hamerquist's essay "Fascism & Anti-Fascism
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Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement
Confronting Fascism: Discussion Documents for a Militant Movement is a series of documents that came out of conversations revolutionaries in and around Anti-Racist Action were having at the highpoint ...
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November 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I return to this book often. Hamerquist brings his experience from the Sojourner Truth Organization's reconsideration the basis of white supremacy from the early 80s; Sakai is important because he challenges Hamerquist's assumptions about what the working class is. Still very relevant.
This is a great thread--many great books and a few I now need to read.
THREAD: been seeing some threads of anti-fascist textual sources that were overwhelmingly academic, so here's a list of non-academic, rooted in radical/revolutionary politics & community, literature on anti-fascism in the United States (and in some cases Canada), in no order whatsoever
a cartoon character named spongebob is reading a book while laying in bed .
ALT: a cartoon character named spongebob is reading a book while laying in bed .
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November 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
This is a great thread--many great books and a few I now need to read.
I've committed to writing an essay called "Reflections on the Tasks of a Philosophy of Antifascism," so I'm available for your conferences and colloquia in Winter 2026, since I'll actually need to write this at some point...
October 19, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I've committed to writing an essay called "Reflections on the Tasks of a Philosophy of Antifascism," so I'm available for your conferences and colloquia in Winter 2026, since I'll actually need to write this at some point...
An official statement from WARN (see what they did there?) in solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social:
Official statement from the Worldwide Anti-Fascism Research Network in solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social.
“The Worldwide Anti-Fascism Research Network stands in solidarity with Mark Bray and all scholars who are facing extreme repression and threats of violence.”
“The Worldwide Anti-Fascism Research Network stands in solidarity with Mark Bray and all scholars who are facing extreme repression and threats of violence.”
Worldwide Antifascism Research Network
An international network of academics studying Antifascism
antifascismresearchnetwork.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM
An official statement from WARN (see what they did there?) in solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social:
This is a huge relief
Our plane to Spain is in the air!
🙌🙌
Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
🙌🙌
Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
October 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
This is a huge relief
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Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder
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October 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.
Thank you for your consideration.
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This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
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The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund are also departing Trumpland, & 'exploring our options for re-establishing the Defence Fund’s infrastructure in a country not currently governed by fascists'.
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October 9, 2025 at 4:16 AM
The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund are also departing Trumpland, & 'exploring our options for re-establishing the Defence Fund’s infrastructure in a country not currently governed by fascists'.
intlantifadefence.wordpress.com/donate
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Every word of this:
October 9, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Every word of this:
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Solidarity!
This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY
October 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Solidarity!
I’ve been telling my colleagues that I won’t be returning to the US anytime soon, and this only reinforces that feeling. I think a lot of even liberal antifascists don’t realize how much the ground has shifted under their feet.
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I’ve been telling my colleagues that I won’t be returning to the US anytime soon, and this only reinforces that feeling. I think a lot of even liberal antifascists don’t realize how much the ground has shifted under their feet.
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Solidarity with Mark Bray. The treatment he’s receiving is extremely disturbing.
“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’
October 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Solidarity with Mark Bray. The treatment he’s receiving is extremely disturbing.
It's an awesome book that foregrounds Black resistance that, among other things, fills in the gaps of Du Bois's Black Reconstruction (that, annoyingly, can be distracting due to failures of the publisher's copyeditors).
For those who would have liked to play this game, check out this awesome book by Black Radical historian Kwando Kinshasa bookshop.org/p/books/blac...
October 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
It's an awesome book that foregrounds Black resistance that, among other things, fills in the gaps of Du Bois's Black Reconstruction (that, annoyingly, can be distracting due to failures of the publisher's copyeditors).
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Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations
Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Solidarity with @mark-bray.bsky.social, a fantastic, thoughtful, and generous scholar whose work about antifa is so important in this moment.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Really looking forward to this one
I just submitted the draft of my next book Antifa: What Everyone Needs to Know to my editor at Oxford University Press. If all goes well, it should be available early next year.
October 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Really looking forward to this one
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Knowing that they have the full support of the federal government, the Proud Boys are going to try invading Portland again.
Since Portland residents won’t passively accept it, this attack will only serve to reinforce the fascist narrative that the city is a war zone.
Since Portland residents won’t passively accept it, this attack will only serve to reinforce the fascist narrative that the city is a war zone.
On Friday, Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio announced on his podcast that because "it seems like [the] Portland Police Bureau is not doing their job," "the Proud Boys will be coming back to Portland" in "one capacity or another."
October 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Knowing that they have the full support of the federal government, the Proud Boys are going to try invading Portland again.
Since Portland residents won’t passively accept it, this attack will only serve to reinforce the fascist narrative that the city is a war zone.
Since Portland residents won’t passively accept it, this attack will only serve to reinforce the fascist narrative that the city is a war zone.
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This is why universities have to take the political changes very seriously - and not just in the US but also in various European countries: we will be one of the first to be attacked when fascism grows.
(if you think this cannot happen in the Netherlands, remember the Owl of Minerva Speech by TB)
(if you think this cannot happen in the Netherlands, remember the Owl of Minerva Speech by TB)
I didn't realize that this threat was as current and urgent as it was. Here's a piece by the Guardian describing @mark-bray.bsky.social's situation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This is why universities have to take the political changes very seriously - and not just in the US but also in various European countries: we will be one of the first to be attacked when fascism grows.
(if you think this cannot happen in the Netherlands, remember the Owl of Minerva Speech by TB)
(if you think this cannot happen in the Netherlands, remember the Owl of Minerva Speech by TB)
I didn't realize that this threat was as current and urgent as it was. Here's a piece by the Guardian describing @mark-bray.bsky.social's situation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I didn't realize that this threat was as current and urgent as it was. Here's a piece by the Guardian describing @mark-bray.bsky.social's situation: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Declaring antifa terrorists may not have many legal implications, but it gives license to all the non-state fascists to intimidate and attack antifascists everywhere.
The state and mainstream institutions won’t protect us. We keep each other safe.
The state and mainstream institutions won’t protect us. We keep each other safe.
I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
I have been forced to move my classes online.
If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.
October 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Declaring antifa terrorists may not have many legal implications, but it gives license to all the non-state fascists to intimidate and attack antifascists everywhere.
The state and mainstream institutions won’t protect us. We keep each other safe.
The state and mainstream institutions won’t protect us. We keep each other safe.
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If the idea that antifascism requires a diversity of tactics (especially when the state expands its weaponization of law) makes you even remotely uncomfortable, I would encourage you to read Mark’s book and other antifascist literature.
We need everybody, w/all antagonism directed towards fascists.
We need everybody, w/all antagonism directed towards fascists.
It’s true that sometimes the law holds back Trump and affords us some semblance of safety.
But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us.
Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.
But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us.
Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.
October 5, 2025 at 3:19 AM
If the idea that antifascism requires a diversity of tactics (especially when the state expands its weaponization of law) makes you even remotely uncomfortable, I would encourage you to read Mark’s book and other antifascist literature.
We need everybody, w/all antagonism directed towards fascists.
We need everybody, w/all antagonism directed towards fascists.
Reposted by d.z.shaw
It’s true that sometimes the law holds back Trump and affords us some semblance of safety.
But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us.
Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.
But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us.
Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.
October 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It’s true that sometimes the law holds back Trump and affords us some semblance of safety.
But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us.
Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.
But the more we lean into the law as our shield, the more powerful it will become as a sword when Trump changes it in his favor and wields it against us.
Only mass antifascism, legal or not, can save us.