Article Subjects and Geography: Fascism

Nietzsche’s French Legacy: Fascism and the Compatible Left

Nietzsche’s French Legacy: Fascism and the Compatible Left

by Gabriel Rockhill

November 1, 2026

MR is pleased to be able to share with readers Gabriel Rockhill's Introduction to The Poverty of Left Nietzscheanism by Aymeric Monville (Iskra Books, 2026). Rockhill provides readers with a thorough account of the rehabilitation of Nietzsche within French Theory and its consequences within the non-communist left. Fascism, Rockhill argues, "can only be understood and contested through materialist analysis and anticapitalist praxis"—a fitting preamble to a book that acts as "an insightful indictment of the dominant capitalist ideologies while clearly articulating the political path forward."
U.S. Imperialism Resurgent

U.S. Imperialism Resurgent

by Costas Lapavitsas

July 1, 2026

It is quite evident, Costas Lapavitsas begins, that the world is currently ensnared in geopolitical turmoil, perhaps for over a decade. In this article, Lapavitsas provides insight into the inseparable and interlocking mechanisms of dollar dominance and imperialism backed by the escalatory militarism of the second Trump administration. As Lapavitsas notes: "The dollar and the F-35—monetary coercion and military power—are two moments of a single structure of domination."
The Destruction of Reason and the Rise of Ecofascism in the United States

The Destruction of Reason and the Rise of Ecofascism in the United States

by Brett Clark and John Bellamy Foster

June 1, 2026

MR associate editor Brett Clark and editor John Bellamy Foster explore "the death drive of late imperialism" and its manifestations in an ecological crisis that is not parallel to, but inseparable from, increasingly open ecofascism in the United States. Drawing from Luckács's Destruction of Reason and István Mészáros's work on imperialism, Clark and Foster present a materialist analysis that illuminates the cult of unreason so pervasive under capitalism and imperialism while pointing to a path forward that is grounded in the historical-materialist Marxist tradition.
December 2025 (Volume 77, Number 7)

December 2025 (Volume 77, Number 7)

by The Editors

December 1, 2025

As part of our special issue on the legacy of former MR coeditor Robert W. McChesney, December's "Notes from the Editors" revisits his prescient insight into the rise of neofascism in the U.S. While the threat is undeniable, he wrote, "the good news…is that there is nothing inexorable about the victory of fascism. There is another road out, and that road is socialism."
June 2025 (Volume 77, Number 2)

June 2025 (Volume 77, Number 2)

by The Editors

June 1, 2025

This month, the editors dive into the history of Nazi Germany for a discussion of Gleichschaltung, which in this instance describes the "falling into line" of institutions and individuals under fascism. As the editors point out, the extralegal and norm-breaking actions may be justified rhetorically by the fascist regime but require the acquiescence of the larger society in order to become effective—a process we are currently watching in real time.
The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism

The Trump Doctrine and the New MAGA Imperialism

by John Bellamy Foster

June 1, 2025

In this third installment of MR's series on the MAGA movement, John Bellamy Foster explores the dramatic shift in U.S. imperialism that began with the first Trump presidency and has accelerated in his second. The shift, Foster explains, is not one driven by anti-imperialism and anti-militarism but rather represents a hard shift to the right fueled by hypernationalism and the goal of recapturing U.S. power on the world stage.
‘Gleichschaltung’ in Nazi Germany

‘Gleichschaltung’ in Nazi Germany

by John Bellamy Foster

June 1, 2025

In this excerpt from John Bellamy Foster's Trump in the White House (Monthly Review Press, 2017), Foster expands on the concept, origins, and practical effects of Gleichschaltung (falling into line) in Nazi Germany and its relevance today. As Foster writes "to put such a neo-fascist strategy in place requires a new kind of Gleichschaltung"; one in which all of society—from the judiciary to Congress to cultural and media institutions—are brought into line.
May 2025 (Volume 77, Number 1)

May 2025 (Volume 77, Number 1)

by The Editors

May 1, 2025

In the Notes from the Editors, MR editors dissect the true meaning behind the right-wing obsession with "Cultural Marxism" and its use to justify the right-wing takeover of the administrative state and the spread of the New McCarthyism threatening all those who oppose the administration. However, the editors point out, what the right fears is not a culturally based, postmodern approach to Marxism, but Marxism as it is historically and materially grounded and its true potential for building a proletarian movement against fascism.
The MAGA Ideology and the Trump Regime

The MAGA Ideology and the Trump Regime

by John Bellamy Foster

May 1, 2025

John Bellamy Foster presents a rogue's gallery of the fascist ideologues insidiously pushing the MAGA agenda, from the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025 to neo-Nazi YouTubers and cultural influencers. "The political and ideological successes of the MAGA movement," Foster writes, "were made possible in part by a liberal-left that abandoned the working class economically and politically."
The Danger of Fascism in the United States: A View from the 1950s

The Danger of Fascism in the United States: A View from the 1950s

by Paul A. Baran

April 1, 2025

"The Big Business-military coalition in the United States," Paul A. Baran wrote in this prescient reprise from 1952, "assumes all of the functions of a fascist regime…. And it develops rapidly into its own American variety of government under capitalism in an age of imperialism, wars, and national and social revolutions. It becomes fully adapted to its sinister historical mission—to be the instrument of ruthless class struggle on the national and international planes."

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