It's part 2 of Making Sense of the Alt-Right by George Hawley! More nazi stuff! 

Special thanks to, as per usual, Nicole Cuddihy, Andrew Harvey, and Shane Ragland; for their art, music, and editing respectively. 

Read along with us! Our next book will be The End of Policing. 

This is the first part of George Hawley's Making Sense of the Alt-Right! Read along with us if you like, or don't. It's an introduction to the right-wing extremist movement that lead to the horrors of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. It's more Nazi stuff. 

This week, we are joined by Anna McGary, of Anna McGary Knows Everything! She's the best. She can be found at @annamcsnail on twitter. Al and Collin can be found under their names on the socials media,.

Special thanks go to Andrew Harvey, Nicole Cuddihy, and our new editor: artist and Antifa chad, Shane Ragland! He'll be helping us to combat Zoom's compression problems down the line. We're working on it, thank you for your patience. 

In this episode, we finish our analysis of Ur-Fascism. Find Al Groppi, Collin Orton, and Dylan Slye under those names online.

Next week we begin George Hawley's Making Sense of the Alt-Right. That's what it's called, regardless of what Collin says in the episode. 

Find us on Twitter at @leftistlitpod for announcements! 

Thanks again to Nicole Cuddihy and Andrew Harvey! 

Ur-Fascism:

https://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf 

Getting Informed: A Leftist Lit Podcast is a book club, hosted by Collin Orton, where inexperienced lefties try and make sense of what the hell is going on around them. In Episode 1, Collin is joined by Al Groppi and Dylan Slye to discuss Umberto Eco's Ur-Fascism, which certainly has no bearing in modern politics. 

This episode was recorded in August of 2020, and so the news segments will become more relevant to current events as we catch up to the current date.

As this is episode one, there are some audio issues, please bear with us, we're figuring it out. 

Ur-Fascism can be found for free here:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

Cover art by Nicole Cuddihy 

Theme by Andrew Harvey