Spectres of Fascism, Historical, Theoretical and International Perspectives is a book edited Dr. Samir Gandesha, Director of the SFU’S Institute for the Humanities. It was published in 2020 but is drawn from a free school presented at the Institute in 2017. The following is taken from Professor Gandesha’s foreword:
A couple of Tesla Takedown events in the lower mainland this weekend. The first one is today at noon at the Tesla Dealership in Vancouver. March 16, there is another event at noon, 12021 104th Avenue, Surrey.
Neofascists in the 21st century care nothing about the consequences of tyranny, but they understand how tyrants gain power. They intend to control media, damage the economy, and cripple the justice system, expecting resulting chaos will bring an end to democracy.
I won’t post again on the platform owned by today’s leading promoter of fascism. Only psychopaths aim to revive a movement responsible for a conflict that left more than 50 million dead, mostly non-combatant civilians. Over a billion people were negatively affected by World War II…
A candidate for the People’s Party of Canada asked if I would join his podcast for a discussion of government functions. Having no interest in promoting or assisting that party, I declined. So, who are the people who support the People’s Party?
More than 100 years ago, American labor activist Eugene Debs said, “Every robber or oppressor in history has wrapped himself in a cloak of patriotism or religion, or both.” Today, authoritarians seek control of goverrnments in North America. It is not someone else’s problem.
The targeting of enemies—minorities, liberals, secularists, leftists, urban naxals, intellectuals, assorted protestors—is not driven by a calculus of ordinary politics….When you legitimize yourself entirely by inventing enemies, the truth ceases to matter, normal restraints of civilization and decency cease to matter, the checks and balances of normal politics cease to matter.
Perhaps my concern in an earlier blog post about trending toward fascism missed an important proof. In July 2010, the chairman and cofounder of the Blackstone Group, one of the world’s largest […]
RCMP conducted five-month national security probe into leaked F-35 story,Murray Brewster and Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press, May 16, 2012 “The Harper government called in the RCMP to investigate a politically embarrassing […]
Laurence Britt’s Patterns of national behaviour and abuse of power #3: Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause… Bill C-38, Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, May 9, 2012: “…Over the past few months, […]
Laurence W. Britt, Free Inquiry Magazine, Council for Secular Humanism, Spring 2003: …fascism’s principles are wafting in the air today, surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging everything we stand for. The cliché […]
Thanks for this article Norm. A few years ago Mark Carney took the podium in Davos and famously said we…
Uh-Oh. Another Chinese EV innovation? The problem: your large EV transport is almost out of power. What can you do?…
Emblematic that this happens in the context of a leader avoiding prosecution for much lesser offences, and of the enrichment…
Survivability: the learning curve begins for another huge US Corporation. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/survivability the fact of being able to survive (= to…
It has not resulted in the death of tens of thousands of innocent people like the military actions in Gaza,…