Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAntifascism: The Course of a Crusade is a sequel to Gottfried's Fascism: The Career of a Concept (2016), which was the best book on [the subject] to appear in a decade or more.
* First Things *
Antifascism is an important book for understanding that every time our rulers claim to be fighting old fascism, they are really proposing new tyranny.
* The Washington Examiner *
The reader will learn that the contemporary treatment of fascism [is] very different from how Marxist and liberal critics responded to the ideology and its adherents in the first half of the 20th century. Antifascism is as much a book of history as it is a book of political science.
* American Conservative *
No doubt Gottfried's book will rank among the most scholarly and convincing responses to the delirium of the present.
* Éléments *
As Gottfried notes, numerous Catholics opposed Nazism during the 1930s and 40s, but those who fought real Nazis back when doing so required actual courage were motivated by values radically different from those of today's self-styled antifa crusadersWhat is perhaps most important to note is that, back in the day, the Nazis' Catholic opponents were not driven by hate but by love.
* Crisis Magazine *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Antifa and the Mainstreaming of Antifascism
2. Origins of Antifascism
3. Post–World War II Antifascism
4. Defining and Redefining Fascism
5. Populism versus Antifascism
6. The Uses and Abuses of "Conservative" Antifascism
7. The Antifascist State
Excursus: Antifascism and the Nature of Hobbesian Authority
Afterthoughts
