The author uses Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man, which has its problems, but I believe that he uses, let’s say, the “good parts” of that book. He also uses Louis Freina’s book (a CPUSA founding member, I think) and goes against Dmitrov’s definition of fascism, or rather, goes against its application to the United States and uses a different definition instead.
There are a lot of books that are mentioned in the first 15 minutes which I suggest you all either write down or type down in a document for later. But for the most part though, I would suggest listening to this while you’re doing other things. You may disagree with it, though it may be something to consider because he brings up several aspects of fascism that are useful to consider, I think.
Here are the two other videos I posted today, which I also recommend:
The author also published his book on Monthly Review Press, which is a good marker as to their quality, though I think Monthly Review is at least a little overrated among MLs. And I do feel that there are so far elements that I disagree with him on. Though some of what he says echoes the Chinese critiques of what they call “neo-imperialism.”
Has anyone read about neo-imperialism here?
Anyways, you can purchase the book here at Monthly Review Press.
The book is called The Coming of the American Behemoth: The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920–1940 by Michael Joseph Roberto.
A bit meandering in some places, but he brings up a lot of interesting info that you could use for later.
I’m a little over 20 minutes into the video right now as I type this.