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Join Salvage and Haymarket Books for a conversation on fascism in America with Richard Seymour and Nikhil Pal Singh\n\nThe January \u2018insurrection\u2019 renewed arguments about whether the United States is experiencing a form of incipient fascism. While liberal \u2018Resistance\u2019 figures like Timothy Snyder characterize Donald Trump as an \u2018authoritarian\u2019 who was always bound to impose emergency dictatorship, the Left\u2019s arguments have been more complicated. The conditions for classical fascism\u2014imperialist crisis, class civil war, socialist revolution, anticolonial struggle, the emergence of new nation-states fighting for a share of the colonial system, and the stresses of capitalist modernization\u2014are absent. Rather, today\u2019s crises pertain to long-running problems of accumulation, the breakdown of neoliberal globalization, the crisis of political hegemony, and the ecological emergency. In the absence of mass fascist parties, paramilitary organizations and civic associations, the new far right has congealed largely through social media.\n\nFrom Donald Trump\u2019s unique role as a social industry agitator to the upsurge of armed white supremacist militias against Black Lives Matter, the question is whether the reactionary authoritarian mobs coalescing today represent an inchoate fascism, or the dying convulsions of declining sources of conservatism from whiteness to patriarchy.\n\nBuilding on Richard Seymour\u2019s forthcoming article in Salvage #10, Annie Olaloku-Teriba and Barnaby Raine will host a conversation between Richard and Nikhil Pal Singh on how the left should understand today\u2019s growing far right.\n\nThis discussion will be part of the ongoing Salvage Live events series, hosted by Haymarket Books. \n----------------------------------------------------\n\nNikhil Pal Singh is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University.\n\nRichard Seymour is a writer and a founding editor of Salvage. His most recent book is The Twittering Machine.\n\nAnnie Olaloku-Teriba is a writer and podcaster whose research focuses on how neoliberalism has transformed the theory and practice of \u2018race.\u2019\n\nBarnaby Raine is writing his PhD at Columbia University on visions of ending capitalism. He teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research.\n----------------------------------------------------\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Haymarket Books and Salvage. \nFind out more about Salvage: https://salvage.zone\n\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/QsZ4nxytAUQ\n\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\n\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks