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Philosophy of Antifascism - Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy (Hardcover)
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Philosophy of Antifascism - Punching Nazis and Fighting White Supremacy (Hardcover)
Series: Living Existentialism
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On January 20th, 2017, during an interview on the streets of
Washington D.C., white nationalist Richard Spencer was punched by
an anonymous antifascist. The moment was caught on video and
quickly went viral, and soon "punching Nazis" was a topic of heated
public debate. How might this kind of militant action be conceived
of, or justified, philosophically? Can we find a deep commitment to
antifascism in the history of philosophy? Through the
existentialism of Simone de Beauvoir, with some reference to Fanon
and Sartre, this book identifies the philosophical reasons for the
political action being enacted by contemporary antifascists. In
addition, using the work of Jacques Ranciere, it argues that the
alt-right and the far right aren't a kind of politics at all, but
rather forms of paramilitary mobilization aimed at re-entrenching
the power of the state and capital. Devin Shaw argues that in order
to resist fascist mobilization, contemporary movements find a
diversity of tactics more useful than principled nonviolence.
Antifascism must focus on the systemic causes of the re-emergence
of fascism, and thus must fight capital accumulation and the
underlying white supremacism. Providing new, incisive
interpretations of Beauvoir, existentialism, and Ranciere, he makes
the case for organizing a broader militant movement against
fascism.
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