Joan Braune Returns: Understanding & Countering Fascism

Tuesday, January 21, at 2 PM on KPFK on Bibliocracy: This week is our inauguration edition of Bibliocracy Radio and to commemorate, note, take stock of the beginning of the presidency of a fascist clown (for the second time) I check back in with an expert on fascism, an anti-fascist scholar and activist who appeared on this show last May. Joan Braune is the author of a scholarly but extremely accessible book, Understanding and Countering Fascist Movements: From Void to Hope, a handbook of liberatory insights, a history and a glossary, a philosophy text for beginners, with a provocative analysis at its conclusion.  This short but singular contribution to the “Studies in Fascism and the Far Right” series develops from philosophical study but also her personal experience fighting fascists in the Pacific Northwest. Braune is Lecturer in Philosophy at Gonzaga University.  She is author and co-editor of various title including two books on Erich Fromm’s critical theory and, lately, The Ethics of Researching the Far Right. And in this show we reference a review she wrote of three other important anti-fascist books, “Fascism and Eluded Truth” in the journal Free Associations. Here’s her website: https://joanbraune.com/

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