Brief: Antifascist Woodshed 2 (Punching Nazis?)

First of Matthew's two-part examination of why the hell questions of force, non-violent resistance with and without force, unarmed violence and property damage, and armed violence are so incredibly hard to talk about in a culture thick with spiritual and political bypassing. Are we capable of understanding the difference between morality and strategy? Part 1 focuses on philosophy and psychology while Part 2 focuses on definitions and tactics. Together, both parts will push back on conspiracism about the identities, motives, and methods of antifascists. Both will present slices of the rich discourse on violence and non-violence from antifascist history, including clarifying definitions of key terms. Both will open a space to think carefully about what intensities of self and community defense are both useful and tolerable in the fight against fascism. Part 2 gets into the very thick weeds of how the “strategic nonviolence” research of Gene Sharp, Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan is framed as empirical, but may be way more about idealizing Gandhi than about facts on the ground. Drops Monday on Patreon. Huge list of references for each! Show Notes Stopping the Press: The Threats to the Media Posed by the Second Trump Term | The New Yorker What the FBI Has Done, and Kash Patel Could Do - Columbia Journalism Review Hakeem Jeffries cracks down on Trump speech disruptions Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer Got Punched—You Can Thank the Black Bloc | The Nation Aamer Rahman: Is it really ok to punch nazis? $16.5M settlement reached in class-action lawsuit over mass arrests during 2010 G20 summit | CBC News Meditations at the ringed fence around G20 Toronto - rabble.ca Remaining Human: A Buddhist Perspective on Occupy Wall Street - Michael Stone Brief: The Outside Agitator Conspiracy Trope (w/Dr. Peniel Joseph) — Conspirituality Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years | Donald Trump | The Guardian 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Sunshine rules for radicals | saul d. alinsky 198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION | — Gene Sharp She Interrupted a Town-Hall Meeting and Was Dragged Out by Private Security - The New York Times Martin Luther King Jr. had a much more radical message than a dream of racial brotherhood The Enigma of Frantz Fanon | The Nation Frantz Fanon and the struggle against colonisation | MR Online Frantz Fanon and the Paradox of Anticolonial Violence – Solidarity Frantz Fanon—a vital defence of violence by the oppressed - Socialist Worker Land and Freedom (1995 Ken Loach) [ENG Sub] (starting at the collectivization debate scene) Full Spectrum Resistance — McBay The Failure of Nonviolence | The Anarchist Library Beyond Violence and Nonviolence | ROAR Magazine Debunking the myths around nonviolent resistance | ROAR Magazine Social movements and the (mis)use of research: Extinction Rebellion and the 3.5% rule Responding to Domestic Terrorism: A Crisis of Legitimacy - Harvard Law Review Domestic Terrorism: Definitions, Terminology, and Methodology — FBI 676 | United States Sentencing Commission Activists use 'Tesla Takedown' protests to fight job cuts by Musk and Trump | Reuters Tesla vehicles destroyed, vandalized since Musk began role at White House, authorities say - ABC News Anti-DOGE protests at Tesla stores target Elon Musk's bottom line | AP News Tyre Extinguishers: A Night Out with the Climate Activists Sabotaging SUVs Leaflet | Tyre Extinguishers Tesla Stocks Tumble as Elon Musk’s Political Role Grows More Divisive - The New York Times Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency Beyond Violence and Nonviolence | ROAR Magazine Violence Will Only Hurt the Trump Resistance | The New Republic Why Not Riot? Interview with Author Ben Case - CounterPunch.org 10 Lessons on Filmmaking from Director Ken Loach BBC Taster - How to Make a Ken Loach Film Land and Freedom (1995 Ken Loach) [ENG Sub] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices