Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

On today's episode we have back on the program long time friend of the show multiple appearance

guests, my good friend and comrade fellow organizer Brendan to talk about fascism, anti-semitism

and really to dive deep into the history and the complications in our understanding of

fascism, how fascism manifests in different contexts etc. and we've done lots of episodes

on fascism throughout the history of RevLeft and we're going to continue to do so because

it's an important and huge phenomenon current in our society and is only getting stronger

as the center falls out and it is the in so many ways opposite of the world that we on

the socialist left envision so it's important that we don't fall into easy, knee-jerk, you

know shallow understandings of fascism and once you think that you have a good grasp on

what fascism is I think it can be helpful intellectually to complicate that puzzle a little

bit and make you think through things more systematically because like everything fascism

is an ever evolving open-ended you know development and not a static thing that can be grasped

once and for all.

So we navigate and go through and explore many of the complications the nuances of fascism,

how we define it, what the history of it is, how to identify it etc.

and you know Brendan didn't plug anything at the end of this episode but I'll plug it

for him is his band you know he's a local music artist as well as an organizer and his

band is called No Thanks they recently released an album called Sumerger that the outro

song at the end of this episode will be one of the tracks off that wonderful album he

describes it as a sort of gothic Marxist, anti-fascist album and I love the band I've seen

them perform live I just absolutely enjoy the music and I hope some segment of the listenership

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