Fascism: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 6:00pm
Gregory Diamant

What do we mean when we use the term “fascism”? Do we apply it only to Europe in the first half of the 20th century? What is the relationship, if any, to autocracy, post fascism and neo-fascism? Fascism is a word often used to describe anything oppressive, a term of opprobrium that conjures up the odor of sulphur. But does using it that way lead to muddled thinking? Fascism not only has roots in Europe but in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. How can we use our history to analyze the present political moment and peek into our future?

Gregory Diamant is a lifelong social justice activist and writer and sometime actor in SMA. He was a private student of Howard Zinn and likes the way jokes can often shed light on knotty issues.

UPCOMING TOURS

March 3, 2025 to March 7, 2025

We will depart from San Miguel early in the morning to Patzcuaro, where we will spend three days. We will visit the most important buildings and churches in Patzcuaro and also visit a number of nearby indigenous villages:

Upcoming Forums & Films

Monday, January 13, 2025 - 1:30pm
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Jeff Faux
Location:
Join in Person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

We are a week before the inauguration of an unstable megalomaniac, totally unfit to be president. His loyalists control the Congress and the Supreme Court. And his stated agenda could destroy American constitutional democracy.  Yet his political opposition hasn’t a clue how to respond.

The issue is not whether the Democrats... Read more

Monday, February 3, 2025 - 1:00pm
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José Alfredo Gutiérrez Falcón
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Join in person at the Hotel Quinta Loreto Community Room

While much of the world is shifting to the right, Mexico is moving in a progressive direction. In 2018, the electoral victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA party) initiated "The Fourth Transformation" which is working, against entrenched opposition,... Read more