E300: Late Antifascism

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Sean KB and AP Andy

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4.2 • 970 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We celebrate 300 (+) Antifadas with a news episode and Q+A! New hits include Trump's Intel buy, the alt-right power and schisms within the Trump admin, ICE raid updates, and the theories of late capitalism and late fascism and if we're seeing the emergence of a late antifascism.

In the Q&A we talk about Grossmanism, TRPF, pre-politics, "partyism" and neo-kautskyism, our political trajectories historical moments that inspire us, and what we're reading/watching/listening to lately.

Subscribe at http://patreon.com/theantifada for the fun half, Discord access, and all bonus material!

Alberto Toscano on Late Fascism: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/notes-on-late-fascism/

DJT state capitalism, our new stupid FDR: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/business/trump-intel-us-steel-nvidia.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

ICE detentions dropping: https://journalistsresource.org/home/ices-recent-detention-data-what-journalists-need-to-understand/

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/ice-arrests-july-decline-immigrants

Did the alt-right win? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/us/politics/trump-far-right.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, Sean, we haven't seen each other in a little while.
0:08.9	It's been a bit.
0:10.2	Well, I'm nursing my broken left arm.
0:13.4	Oh, yeah, you're out of the sling, which, you know, you arrived in the sling,
0:18.2	and you just went to the bathroom and you came out without it.
0:20.6	Tadda. And now you're typing with both hands. Yeah. Well, you know what? you arrived in the sling and you just went to the bathroom and you came out without it.
0:22.9	And now you're typing with both hands.
0:23.5	Yeah.
0:24.9	Well, you know what?
0:31.0	When they surgically put your arm back together as they did with mine with plate and screws with hardware and all that stuff,
0:33.3	the hard part's taken care of.
0:38.9	I do wear the sling when I go out because I don't want someone jostling you on the subway.
0:42.8	Exactly. A, I don't want somebody jostling me on the subway or on the streets.
0:44.0	And B, I want to get a seat.
0:46.8	Oh, yeah, you get to have the disabled seat.
0:50.7	Do people actually move for you or you just, you just feel justified in sitting there?
0:53.4	I don't know.
0:55.6	I hate to admit this,
0:57.7	but it's kind of true that, like,
1:00.8	I think I get a perverse thrill out of people not giving up their seat for me,
1:02.9	because I'm like, you fucking assholes.
1:04.7	You know, I get to feel self-righteous.
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