Ben Rosenzweig
@benrosenzweig.bsky.social
Ornithological materialist.
Only the future might be outside.
Only the future might be outside.
Recently came across this, really gesturing toward the content of a democratic anti-fascism, from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, obviously trying to intervene in a particular moment.
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Recently came across this, really gesturing toward the content of a democratic anti-fascism, from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, obviously trying to intervene in a particular moment.
On some familiar aspects of the context of the victory of the French electoral Left referred to above, comments of a prominent French Left politician, Edouard Herriot, from his 'The Future of French Democracy', in the July 1934 issue of Foreign Affairs.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
On some familiar aspects of the context of the victory of the French electoral Left referred to above, comments of a prominent French Left politician, Edouard Herriot, from his 'The Future of French Democracy', in the July 1934 issue of Foreign Affairs.
doi.org/10.2307/2003...
doi.org/10.2307/2003...
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Excerpt from discussion of efforts by governments to negotiate restrictions on the international arms trade in the '20s and early '30s, from Constance Drexel's 'The Munitions Traffic', in the July 1933 issue of The North American Review.
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
November 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Excerpt from Henry E. Sigerist's 'War and Culture', in the January 1942 issue of the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Excerpt from an article on the strike of thousands of scavengers working for the Calcutta Corporation in colonial India, in the 3 September 1940 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
November 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Excerpt from an article on the strike of thousands of scavengers working for the Calcutta Corporation in colonial India, in the 3 September 1940 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
www.jstor.org/stable/saoa....
From the 'They Say' section of the November 1936 issue of the journal Current History, on the epoch at which capitalism must inevitably arrive, which does sound quite a lot like where we're heading right now.
November 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
From the 'They Say' section of the November 1936 issue of the journal Current History, on the epoch at which capitalism must inevitably arrive, which does sound quite a lot like where we're heading right now.
Excerpt on the rise of fascism in general, and disastrous failure of social democracy faced with rising clerical fascism in Austria in particular, from Lorne T. Morgan's 'The Origins and Development of Fascism', in the 1938 collection, Essays in Political Economy: In Honour of E.J. Urwick.
November 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Excerpt on the rise of fascism in general, and disastrous failure of social democracy faced with rising clerical fascism in Austria in particular, from Lorne T. Morgan's 'The Origins and Development of Fascism', in the 1938 collection, Essays in Political Economy: In Honour of E.J. Urwick.
Of course, to gesture toward a fuller context in a way maybe relevant to aspects of this present moment, an excerpt from Arnold J. Zurcher's 'Austria's Corporative Constitution', in the August 1934 issue of The American Political Science Review.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Of course, to gesture toward a fuller context in a way maybe relevant to aspects of this present moment, an excerpt from Arnold J. Zurcher's 'Austria's Corporative Constitution', in the August 1934 issue of The American Political Science Review.
doi.org/10.2307/1947...
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Opening paragraphs of the editorial in the 2 February 1945 edition of the Catholic Standard and Times, a US Catholic newspaper.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Opening paragraphs of the editorial in the 2 February 1945 edition of the Catholic Standard and Times, a US Catholic newspaper.
From forty years ago, illustrating in detail the US government's long history of providing this service to authoritarian regimes, in order to decorate pretend democracies and help prevent anything approaching an actual one.
November 10, 2025 at 5:31 AM
From forty years ago, illustrating in detail the US government's long history of providing this service to authoritarian regimes, in order to decorate pretend democracies and help prevent anything approaching an actual one.
So maybe not the kind of rhetoric and political strategy that were reflected in the words of future Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern in this AP article from the 16 October 1969 edition of the Portland Ma. Press Herald, '3000 Hear Sen. McGovern Label War 'Our Most Tragic Mistake''.
November 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
So maybe not the kind of rhetoric and political strategy that were reflected in the words of future Democratic Presidential candidate George McGovern in this AP article from the 16 October 1969 edition of the Portland Ma. Press Herald, '3000 Hear Sen. McGovern Label War 'Our Most Tragic Mistake''.
Japan, and particular ideas of Japan, generally loom large when Philippe Sollers writes of his experience of The Friendship of Roland Barthes in the relatively early period of Barthes career, though after Mythologies came out.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Japan, and particular ideas of Japan, generally loom large when Philippe Sollers writes of his experience of The Friendship of Roland Barthes in the relatively early period of Barthes career, though after Mythologies came out.
Excerpt from Anne Braden's article on an even broader context of post-Greensboror massacre struggles, 'The Klu Klux Klan mentality - A Threat in the 1980s', from the First Quarter 1980 issue of the journal Freedomways.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
November 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Excerpt from Anne Braden's article on an even broader context of post-Greensboror massacre struggles, 'The Klu Klux Klan mentality - A Threat in the 1980s', from the First Quarter 1980 issue of the journal Freedomways.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
Article by Lynora Williams, 'Activists map Klan strategy', on the aftermath of the Greensboro massacre.
From the 26 December 1979 edition of The Guardian, 'Independent Radical Newsweekly'.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
From the 26 December 1979 edition of The Guardian, 'Independent Radical Newsweekly'.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Article by Lynora Williams, 'Activists map Klan strategy', on the aftermath of the Greensboro massacre.
From the 26 December 1979 edition of The Guardian, 'Independent Radical Newsweekly'.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
From the 26 December 1979 edition of The Guardian, 'Independent Radical Newsweekly'.
www.jstor.org/stable/commu...
Australia's settler-colonial ideologies were so entrenched in public discourse as to muddy the terms of mainstream anti-fascism during World War Two; the fascism of the Australia First Movement was being condemned like this, as reported in the 5 May 1944 issue of the Amrita Bazar Patrika newspaper.
October 27, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Australia's settler-colonial ideologies were so entrenched in public discourse as to muddy the terms of mainstream anti-fascism during World War Two; the fascism of the Australia First Movement was being condemned like this, as reported in the 5 May 1944 issue of the Amrita Bazar Patrika newspaper.
Brief article on the fascist group calling itself the 'Australia First Movement', from the 25 May 1942 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Brief article on the fascist group calling itself the 'Australia First Movement', from the 25 May 1942 edition of the Indian newspaper Amrita Bazar Patrika.
Excerpt from Ruth Dawson's 'Eighteenth-Century Libertinism in a Time of Change: Representations of Catherine the Great', in the 2002 edition of the Women in German Yearbook.
October 27, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Excerpt from Ruth Dawson's 'Eighteenth-Century Libertinism in a Time of Change: Representations of Catherine the Great', in the 2002 edition of the Women in German Yearbook.
Interesting footnote from a discussion of particularly 17th century Russian state oppression of people on the basis of alleged witchcraft in W. F. Ryan's 'The Witchcraft Hysteria in Early Modern Europe: Was Russia an Exception?', from the January 1998 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review.
October 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Interesting footnote from a discussion of particularly 17th century Russian state oppression of people on the basis of alleged witchcraft in W. F. Ryan's 'The Witchcraft Hysteria in Early Modern Europe: Was Russia an Exception?', from the January 1998 issue of The Slavonic and East European Review.
Nonetheless, this was Barber in the July 2000 issue of Government and Opposition, groping towards an understanding in relation to education, keeping up with his times but not quite seeing the new rise of the socio-historically specific stupidities that are fascism.
doi.org/10.1111/1477...
doi.org/10.1111/1477...
October 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Nonetheless, this was Barber in the July 2000 issue of Government and Opposition, groping towards an understanding in relation to education, keeping up with his times but not quite seeing the new rise of the socio-historically specific stupidities that are fascism.
doi.org/10.1111/1477...
doi.org/10.1111/1477...
Corporate-funded climate change denial groups in Australia are already using an assumed upcoming Reform victory along with the Trump administration's position as a key reason Australia should pretend climate change is a non-issue.
October 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Corporate-funded climate change denial groups in Australia are already using an assumed upcoming Reform victory along with the Trump administration's position as a key reason Australia should pretend climate change is a non-issue.
Has the global political discourse so degenerated that corporations and their think-tanks think it's a good bet to back in effect Trumpian conspiracy-theory-addicted fascists?
Because Trump and Reform in the UK are the touchstones in policy the AEF says Australia must follow.
Because Trump and Reform in the UK are the touchstones in policy the AEF says Australia must follow.
October 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Has the global political discourse so degenerated that corporations and their think-tanks think it's a good bet to back in effect Trumpian conspiracy-theory-addicted fascists?
Because Trump and Reform in the UK are the touchstones in policy the AEF says Australia must follow.
Because Trump and Reform in the UK are the touchstones in policy the AEF says Australia must follow.
Hardly radical people were grasping why his attitudes are awful over a hundred and thirty years ago.
Excerpt from John Graham Brooks, 'The Future Problem of Charity and the Unemployed', in the July 1894 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Excerpt from John Graham Brooks, 'The Future Problem of Charity and the Unemployed', in the July 1894 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
October 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Hardly radical people were grasping why his attitudes are awful over a hundred and thirty years ago.
Excerpt from John Graham Brooks, 'The Future Problem of Charity and the Unemployed', in the July 1894 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Excerpt from John Graham Brooks, 'The Future Problem of Charity and the Unemployed', in the July 1894 issue of The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Excerpted from a larger discussion of the Totenkopf skull symbol and contemporary far Right iconography, in Cynthia Miller-Idriss's 2017 Princeton University Press book, The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Excerpted from a larger discussion of the Totenkopf skull symbol and contemporary far Right iconography, in Cynthia Miller-Idriss's 2017 Princeton University Press book, The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany.
@milleridriss.bsky.social
@milleridriss.bsky.social
Excerpt from Sunil Dasgupta and Stephen P. Cohen, 'Arms Sales for India: How Military Trade Could Energize U.S.-Indian Relations', in the March/April 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs.
October 22, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Excerpt from Sunil Dasgupta and Stephen P. Cohen, 'Arms Sales for India: How Military Trade Could Energize U.S.-Indian Relations', in the March/April 2011 issue of Foreign Affairs.