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Episode 119: The F-Word
🕑 Added 2023-04-21 02:34:00 +0000 UTCGabriel Rockhill joins us again to talk about the F-word…Fascism! Rockhill is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, and the author or editor of nine books, as well as numerous scholarly and general public articles.
These Rockhill articles are particularly relevant to this discussion:
- “Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!”
- “Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime.”
- “The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It.”
- “Liberalism & Fascism: The Good Cop & Bad Cop of Capitalism.”
- “Fascist Plots in the US: Contemporary Lessons from the 1934 ‘Business Plot.’”
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Bad Things” by Mock Orange
Comments
Aaron Good
Sadly, I don't. That era is mostly out of my wheelhouse. Charles Tilly sums things up well enough for my purposes... Karl Polanyi's 'Great Transformation' might be good if you haven't read it.
Heather Squire
Fantastic episode! I know I’m a little late to the party, but I have a quick question related to enclosure. Gabriel mentioned towards the end about this predatory impulse among Anglo settlers who had their land expropriated. I’ve read some of the more well-known scholars writing about the enclosures, but I was wondering if you had some texts that get a bit more into the relationship between severing the European peasantry from land and the violent land lust it inspired. Thank you!
Sally
Wow! Thank you, Aaron! You are the best scholar of American Empire, and Gabriel Rockhill was life changing for me--he and Catherine Liu helped me recover from being a (continental) philosophy major. I am so grateful to you guys. Thank you.
