10/18/2025
🎙️ Listen as I customize a handmade leather belt..
Mark Bray is a world history professor at Rutgers University, now fleeting. He published the book ANTIFA: the antifascist handbook in August of 2017 prior to Trump’s election, in which he explains the meaning and history of ANTIFA while referencing and interviewing comrades around the world.
“Everyday fascists are the ardent trump supporters who ‘tell it like it is’ by actively trying to dismantle the taboos against oppression that the movements for feminism, black liberation, q***r liberation, and others have given actual blood, sweat, and tears to establish as admittedly shoddy, and far too easily manipulatable, bulwarks against outright fascism.”
“At the core of this complex process of opinion making is construction of societal taboos against racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression that constitute the bedrocks of facism.”, “it is important not to lose sight of the fact that antifascism has always been just one facet of a larger struggle against white supremacy and authoritarianism. The decimation of the indigenous populations of the Americas and Australia, the tens of millions who died of famine in India under British rule, the ten million killed by Belgium king Leopold’s Congo Free State, and the horrors of transatlantic slavery are but a sliver of the mass death and societal decimation wrought by European powers prior to the rise of hitler...“
Angelo Tasca, an Italian politician from the 18th century says “to understand fascism we must write its history.”
