Book Club in Review
This week’s Anti Fascist Book Club moves from how “strongmen” rise to how they rule. Using Chapters 4 and 5 of Strongmen by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, the discussion between Nick Paro, Tara Devlin, Stephanie G Wilson, PhD, and special guest Joe Plenzler, we examine propaganda, corruption, gendered violence, and repression as interconnected systems — not excesses. We emphasize that authoritarian power is maintained through narrative control, normalized brutality, and elite complicity — and that recognizing and understanding these systems is essential in order to resisting them.
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