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Many of us have questions about spotting red flags for fascists and cults of personalities. Fortunately for us, philosopher Theodor W. Adorno and other researchers at University of California, Berkeley have already done the work. Studying fascist personality traits during and after World War II, their findings were published in 1950. However, you might be surprised how consistent these personality traits have remained. In fact, this is even more insightful today than it was back then because World War II had people convinced fascism was an anomaly unique only to German Nazis; whereas now, we know there are fascists all around us.

This piece was originally written in 2019 and unfortunately it appears this checklist will become perennial. Please continue to share it with those who have been looking for a checklist like this one.

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We look at Moraes vs. Sandhagen and Barboza vs. Amirkhani. 

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Gabriel Kuhn is a historian, writer, philosopher, activist, and former professional athlete. He joins us to talk about the rise of fascism and antisemitism, sports history and the Left, the idealism of sports and socialism, David Graeber and third wave anarchism, post-modernism and its role in deconstructing reactionary biases, counterculture/DIY culture and antifascism, and the West's rewriting of history. This is one of those must-listen episodes that might completely change your understanding of history, the US, as well as the rest of the world. 

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Books by Gabriel 

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It's easier to recognize how you've been bullied than to recognize how you've bullied others. This is how childhood trauma shapes our present. 

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We look at Adesanya vs. Costa and Reyes vs. Błachowicz. 

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We talk with journalist and activist Simi (bylines: Skanda Kadirgamar) about the side effects of capitalist realism, where we mistake capitalism for a law of physics. We also talk about Kashmir, Sri Lanka, xenophobia and racism after 9/11, the potentiality of Trans and Queer people, occupying space as a marginalized person and the interest in martial arts, and capitalist realism's effects on journalism. 

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Find Simi on Twitter @Skaitama, on Instagram @simikassandra0228, and bylines at Truthout, The Nation, and Waging Nonviolence 

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