Fascism w/ American Characteristics (The Pokepreet Podcast Ft. Breht O'Shea)

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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"In this episode we are joined by Breht O'Shea to talk about fascism and it's peculiarities in the 21st Century."

I went on The Pokepreet Podcast for a second time recently and had a really in-depth and nuanced conversation about fascism, presently and historically; together we discuss how American fascism arising out of the ruins of neoliberalism is qualitatively different than previous fascisms, the role of insecure masculinity in all fascist movements, the implications of a lack of an organized and militant working class to combat it, the feckless liberal (non)response, the Democrats embrace of the "Abundance" agenda, the Palestinian liberation struggle, and MUCH much more.

You can find Henri's work at:

⁠https://substack.com/@henrimartel ⁠

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0:00.0	Hello, guys. Welcome back to the PokyPriPri podcast. I'm joined here by my co-host, Henry Martel,
0:06.2	and of course, the lovely Brett O'Shea, to talk about fascism and social revolution by Arpom Dutt.
0:13.0	It's a really great book that I think describes fascism perfectly. It was written in the 1930s,
0:19.8	especially around the rise of fascism. Let's get the
0:22.7	introductions out of the way, of course. Brett O'Shea, host of the Rev Left podcast, former host of
0:27.9	guerrilla history, host of Shulis and Dakota, who we've had him on the show before. Brett,
0:32.0	you want to introduce yourself? Yeah, thank you so much for all of that. I love being back on
0:37.3	the show with you last time we
0:38.2	we collabed um the response from at least my listeners was very very positive so very cool to
0:43.5	to be back on here yeah i host rebel left radio co-host red menace um shootless in south
0:49.0	dakota's kind of a fun side project not really political but something i do is my friend
0:52.9	who's in active recovery.
0:59.6	So yeah, that's who I own. Thanks for having me on. And then Henry, you're a bit of a new co-host.
1:01.2	Do you want to introduce yourself just super quick?
1:09.4	Yeah, hello. Very happy to be here. I write on substack under Henry Martel, and I'm working on YouTube channel at some point in the future.
1:12.4	But yeah, I'm Marxist and love philosophy, history, and so on.
1:17.0	And happy to be here.
1:18.6	Yeah.
1:18.9	So jumping right into the book, the book begins out with an economic critique of capitalism first.
1:24.7	Like, it doesn't begin with fascism first. And why do you think
1:29.4	our palm dot does that? Yeah, I could jump in and give some thoughts. I mean, obviously, I think
1:36.7	all of these things, and as dialectical materialists, we understand that these things are
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