Brian J Griffith
@brianjgriffith.bsky.social
Modern European historian. Writing book on 🍷 in Fascist Italy.
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@NewFascismSyllabus.bsky.social
@WMAB-2018-2019.bsky.social
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Websites:
https://www.brianjgriffith.com
https://www.newfascismsyllabus.com
https://www.wheremonstersareborn.com
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Projects:
@NewFascismSyllabus.bsky.social
@WMAB-2018-2019.bsky.social
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Websites:
https://www.brianjgriffith.com
https://www.newfascismsyllabus.com
https://www.wheremonstersareborn.com
Headlines: Hitler had a micropenis.
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November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Headlines: Hitler had a micropenis.
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MAGAs are so far to the right now they think that media outlets like the BBC are "leftist propaganda machine[s]." When your job is bootlicking for the Fuhrer, everyone and everything is to your left.
BBC ‘100% fake news’, says Donald Trump’s press secretary
Comments by Karoline Leavitt follow allegations that Panorama documentary misled viewers with its editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
MAGAs are so far to the right now they think that media outlets like the BBC are "leftist propaganda machine[s]." When your job is bootlicking for the Fuhrer, everyone and everything is to your left.
Just getting ready for my "Europe after Hitler" course next semester ...
November 3, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Just getting ready for my "Europe after Hitler" course next semester ...
It's important to point out, here, that Italian neo-fascists celebrate The Shire as the ideal entho-nationalist community, "unpolluted" by the influences of globalization and multi-culturalism. See the following Atlas Obscura article for further details:
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 PM
It's important to point out, here, that Italian neo-fascists celebrate The Shire as the ideal entho-nationalist community, "unpolluted" by the influences of globalization and multi-culturalism. See the following Atlas Obscura article for further details:
In Nazi Germany — much like in Fascist Italy — Hitler's regime banned independent (that is, left-wing) labor unions and replaced them with the German Labor Front, which was controlled by the Nazi Party. 1/11
October 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In Nazi Germany — much like in Fascist Italy — Hitler's regime banned independent (that is, left-wing) labor unions and replaced them with the German Labor Front, which was controlled by the Nazi Party. 1/11
Reposted by Brian J Griffith
The materials in our CasaPound Italia collection illuminate the group's neo-fascist ideology, cultural activism, youth engagement, and promotion of far-right notions of Italian heritage through street-level propaganda and activities.
URL: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/collections/...
URL: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/collections/...
October 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The materials in our CasaPound Italia collection illuminate the group's neo-fascist ideology, cultural activism, youth engagement, and promotion of far-right notions of Italian heritage through street-level propaganda and activities.
URL: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/collections/...
URL: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/collections/...
Well well well ...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Well well well ...
I've been looking for Andy my whole life ...
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October 9, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I've been looking for Andy my whole life ...
This reminds me of one of Jesus' beatitudes: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall turn the Department of Defense into the Department of War.”
October 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
This reminds me of one of Jesus' beatitudes: “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall turn the Department of Defense into the Department of War.”
Labeling anti-fascism as a "terrorist movement"? Dr. Mark Bray stopped at Newark Airport? Deploying the National Guard to left-leaning American cities? Talk of invoking the Insurrection Act? Now's the time to start putting together a more detailed Plan B.
October 9, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Labeling anti-fascism as a "terrorist movement"? Dr. Mark Bray stopped at Newark Airport? Deploying the National Guard to left-leaning American cities? Talk of invoking the Insurrection Act? Now's the time to start putting together a more detailed Plan B.
In his 1925 political manifesto, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Adolf Hitler wrote openly about how to "professionally" lie to the masses for political objectives. "The task of propaganda," he writes, "does not lie in the scientific training of individuals, but in directing... 1/8
October 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In his 1925 political manifesto, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Adolf Hitler wrote openly about how to "professionally" lie to the masses for political objectives. "The task of propaganda," he writes, "does not lie in the scientific training of individuals, but in directing... 1/8
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus.” — Turkish Proverb
October 7, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus.” — Turkish Proverb
The capacity of the American far right for self-delusion and projection would be laughable if it wasn't so frightening, politically speaking.
Schmitt: "Let's just call it out. We need a cleansing here. Let's just be truthful about what's happening. This left-wing political violence is not a both sides thing. It's not."
October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
The capacity of the American far right for self-delusion and projection would be laughable if it wasn't so frightening, politically speaking.
"Fascism is a form of programmatic modernism that seeks to conquer political power in order to realize its totalizing vision of national or ethnic rebirth. Its ultimate end is to overcome the decadence that has destroyed ..." 1/2
October 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"Fascism is a form of programmatic modernism that seeks to conquer political power in order to realize its totalizing vision of national or ethnic rebirth. Its ultimate end is to overcome the decadence that has destroyed ..." 1/2
Something for everyone to consider:
SCREENSHOT 1: An announcement by the CFA explaining that the Trump administration's USEEO Commission has filed an "antisemitism complaint" against the CSU system for systemic discrimination against Jewish applicants/faculty members.
SCREENSHOT 1: An announcement by the CFA explaining that the Trump administration's USEEO Commission has filed an "antisemitism complaint" against the CSU system for systemic discrimination against Jewish applicants/faculty members.
October 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Something for everyone to consider:
SCREENSHOT 1: An announcement by the CFA explaining that the Trump administration's USEEO Commission has filed an "antisemitism complaint" against the CSU system for systemic discrimination against Jewish applicants/faculty members.
SCREENSHOT 1: An announcement by the CFA explaining that the Trump administration's USEEO Commission has filed an "antisemitism complaint" against the CSU system for systemic discrimination against Jewish applicants/faculty members.
Carrying out acts of "war" against an "internal enemy" (which is defined in ideological and, oftentimes, racial terms) is one of many markers of a fascistic political culture. 1/3
September 30, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Carrying out acts of "war" against an "internal enemy" (which is defined in ideological and, oftentimes, racial terms) is one of many markers of a fascistic political culture. 1/3
In his 1993 monograph, Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany, David Blackbourn analyzes the sudden explosion of Virgin Mary "sightings" across post-Unification Germany. Using these alleged sightings as an interpretive lens... (1/10)
September 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
In his 1993 monograph, Marpingen: Apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Bismarckian Germany, David Blackbourn analyzes the sudden explosion of Virgin Mary "sightings" across post-Unification Germany. Using these alleged sightings as an interpretive lens... (1/10)
But tell me again how "creepy" China is for developing the largest, most repressive Panopticon in human history...
Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'
Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune
Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.
fortune.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
But tell me again how "creepy" China is for developing the largest, most repressive Panopticon in human history...
No mention of the assassinations of Democrats in MN. No mention of the anti-democratic violence on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol Building. No mention of the attempted kidnapping of a Democratic governor in MI or an arson at the Governor's Mansion in PA. THIS IS A PARTISAN ATTACK ON OUR DEMOCRACY.
September 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
No mention of the assassinations of Democrats in MN. No mention of the anti-democratic violence on January 6, 2021 at the Capitol Building. No mention of the attempted kidnapping of a Democratic governor in MI or an arson at the Governor's Mansion in PA. THIS IS A PARTISAN ATTACK ON OUR DEMOCRACY.
Reposted by Brian J Griffith
Where Monsters Are Born has received its first scholarly review in Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (University of Amsterdam Press)! See the URL below.
‘Where Monsters Are Born: Documenting a Fascist Revival in the Streets of Rome, 2018–2019’ | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, ...
www.aup-online.com
September 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Where Monsters Are Born has received its first scholarly review in Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies (University of Amsterdam Press)! See the URL below.
When the anti-fascist historian Gaetano Salvemini returned to the University of Florence in 1949, following a long exile from Italy during the years of Fascism (1922-1945), he is alleged to have begun his first lecture with: "Come stavamo dicendo l’ultima volta…" (As I was saying...). 1/
September 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
When the anti-fascist historian Gaetano Salvemini returned to the University of Florence in 1949, following a long exile from Italy during the years of Fascism (1922-1945), he is alleged to have begun his first lecture with: "Come stavamo dicendo l’ultima volta…" (As I was saying...). 1/
If opposing fascism is "terrorism," then promoting it is "patriotism."
September 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
If opposing fascism is "terrorism," then promoting it is "patriotism."
One of the most insidious (and frankly successful) things that fascists do is manipulate language and perceptions of reality/truth in order to attract followers to their movements.
September 16, 2025 at 5:55 PM
One of the most insidious (and frankly successful) things that fascists do is manipulate language and perceptions of reality/truth in order to attract followers to their movements.
To learn more about how the far right deploys this concept of "martyr," see the "Making Martyrs" lesson plan on the Where Monsters Are Born website: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/lesson-1-mak...
September 11, 2025 at 12:26 AM
To learn more about how the far right deploys this concept of "martyr," see the "Making Martyrs" lesson plan on the Where Monsters Are Born website: www.wheremonstersareborn.com/lesson-1-mak...