Late Fascism: a Conversation With Alberto Toscano

A video of this March 3, 2024, event is available on the MEP’s YouTube channel.

A talk and conversation with Alberto Toscano about his powerful new book Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis. Toscano asks, how should we name, map and respond to the present state of affairs where the forces of authoritarianism and reaction seem to have the upper hand? Drawing especially on Black radical and anticolonial theories of fascism, the book makes clear the limits of associating fascism primarily with the kinds of political violence experienced in past European regimes. Toscano argues we should see fascism as a changing process, a threat anchored in racial and colonial capitalism, which continues to evolve in the present day. In the words of Robin D.G. Kelley, “Late Fascism is brilliant, incisive, and right on time.” The book is available from Verso.

Alberto Toscano teaches at Simon Fraser University and at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the editor of Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Democracy and a member of the editorial board of Historical Materialism.