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Michael Staudenmaier, Xtn Alexander, Matthew N. Lyons, Janeen Porter: Three Way Fight (2024, PM Press) No rating

What's the relationship between combating the far right and working for systemic change? What does …

I really enjoyed the essays in this book. The introduction by Xtn and Matthew provides a great introduction to the tendency of Three Way Fight, it included essays I'd read before ("Antifascism Against Machismo" and "Fascism & Antifascism: An Indigenous Perspective") as well as many other great contributions I hadn't come across before (like D.Z. Shaw's "Seven Theses..." and some of the historic pieces from the Sojourner Truth Organization or ARA Research Network). The perspective that fascist ideas should be understood and taken seriously to be countered and defeated, that liberal antifascism fits hand in glove with capitalist repression, and that working class and autonomous antifascist organizing needs to have a revolutionary horizon to not only counter the other two but to make a world where neither capitalism nor fascism or authoritarianism has a place... this really resonates with me at this point. Good food for thought. Though I admit, I don't understand Don Hamerquist's writing. I need to approach it again with fresh eyes.