Federico Finchelstein

When in Rome: The Mosse Lecture on March 20! Renato Moro, “A Disputed Resistance: The Memory of Anti-Fascism in Italy (1945-2025)” mosselectures.wisc.edu/event/moro/

The Wannabe Fascists, you can read my last book as Audiobook

Wannabe Fascists: A Guide to Understanding the Greatest Threat to Democracy a.co/d/08MPgswm
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My talk on Monday on global & transnational fascism at
Northern Arizona University/ Flagstaff. I am thankful to the 150 people that attended the lecture!

To quote (paraphrase?) Federico Finchelstein (A Brief History of Fascist Lies):

"Lying is a feature, not a bug, of fascism. For the fascist, the 'truth' is whatever allows them to dominate others."

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My kind of coffee @ Route 66 az. Just needed it before my lecture on global fascisms today at NAU

Fascism in Global & Transnational History, my lecture today in Flagstaff, Arizona at Northern Arizona University

YouTube video by Johnny Harris Is Fascism Back?

1 million and 300 hundred thousand views in just 1 day! I was interviewed for this excellent report by
Johnny Harris www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV8K...

Let's be clear. This is the road to dictatorship!

Let's be clear. This is the road to dictatorship...no pasaran!

A Brief History of Fascist Lies. Read by Edoardo Ballerini Federico explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth, and why so many of their followers believed the falsehoods.

Trumpism: democratic language is kept, while fascist tactics-big lies, mythic nationalism, scapegoating, and delegitimizing elections-are repackaged for mass politics.

Trump and MAGA rely on exactly the kind of political lying Finchelstein describes.

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A Brief History of Fascist Lies Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth." (Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them) ...

As Federico Finchelstein explains, lying is a feature, not a bug, of fascism. For the fascist, the 'truth' is whatever allows them to dominate others. They see their lies as in service to a 'greater truth' which is, in fact, a bigger lie.

www.audible.com/pd/B08H4VNP5...

The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front In interwar Europe, the rise of Hitler and Mussolini forced leftists into pragmatic alliances. The popular fronts they built were a defense against fascism, but also pointed to how to win broad-based ...

"The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front", via @jacobinmag.bsky.social. My essay on what the Popular Front can teach us, and how the strategy could be used to move the political centre towards the left: jacobin.com/2026/02/inte...

The wannabe fascist embodies an incomplete version of fascism. Adopting a messianic style, this type of leader despises any type of deep thinking. For them there is no big picture. Idiocy, extreme narcissism, and an ability to manipulate people and institutions go hand in hand.

The pure incompetency of the trump government is staggering

The wannabe fascist embodies an incomplete version of fascism. Adopting a messianic style, this type of leader despises any type of deep thinking. For them there is no big picture. Idiocy, extreme narcissism, and an ability to manipulate people and institutions go hand in hand.

Populism, Fascism and Dictatorships, my keynote speech at REFAT conference in Buenos Aires
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about time!!! but welcome!!!

GORSUCH: “.. permanent accretion of power in the hands of one man. That is no recipe for a republic.” 👀

This week in Argentina for this conference at the Campus of the University of Bologna in Buenos Aires.

Conference on the "politics of the past" of the Portuguese populist radical right at the Convegno "Dopo le Dittature", University of Bologna in Buenos Aires, citing the late Leonardo Morlino and a book I've co-edited with him.

Populism, Fascism and Dictatorships, my keynote speech at REFAT conference in Buenos Aires
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Exactly! Fascist playbook 101!

The Wannabe Fascists/Aspirantes a Fascistas. Mi libro/my book @ Buenos Aires Libreriasantafe @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social tauruseditorial
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Populism, Fascism and Dictatorship. Today I will give the keynote speech at this fantastic conference at University of Bologna in Buenos Aires

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Populism, Fascism and Dictatorship. Today I will give the keynote speech at this fantastic conference at University of Bologna in Buenos Aires

instagram.com/p/DUG_M4qiop...

The Wannabe Fascists/Aspirantes a Fascistas. Mi libro/my book @ Buenos Aires Libreriasantafe @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social tauruseditorial
@ucpress.bsky.social

A Brief History of Fascist Lies Check out this great listen on Audible.com. "There is no better book on fascism's complex and vexed relationship with truth." (Jason Stanley, author of How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them) ...

I have to listen to this again. To paraphrase Finchelstein:

"Lying is a FEATURE, not a bug, of fascism. For the fascist, the 'truth' is whatever allows them to dominate others. They see their lies as in service to a larger truth, which is itself a bigger lie."

www.audible.com/pd/B08H4VNP5...

T. Adorno: Hitler and Goebbels: "a band of conspirators installed as the police. Their usurpation reveals that inherent in the myth of power." In fascism. "the elites are self-appointed. Arrest is assault, judgment violence."