Audiobooks by Alberto Toscano

Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis

"Late Fascism turns to theories of fascism produced in the past century, testing their capacity to illuminate our moment and challenging many of the commonplaces that debate on this extremely charged term devolves into. It can be tempting for any contemporary assessment of fascism to reach for historical analogy. Rather than treating fascism as an unrepeatable phenomenon or identifying it with a settled configuration of European parties, regimes, and ideologies, Toscano approaches fascism as a problem and a process, one that is intimately linked to capitalism's demands for domination. Drawing especially on Black radical and anti-colonial theories of racial fascism, Late Fascism makes clear the limits of identifying fascism simply with the political violence of bygone European regimes. From the 'Great Replacement' to campaigns against critical race theory and 'gender ideology,' today's global far-right is launching lethal panics about the threats to traditional political, sexual, and racial regimes. Late Fascism allows us to rediscover some truly inspiring anti-fascist thinkers, rooted in their turn in largely anonymous collective practices of worldmaking against domination, traditions of the oppressed that remain a resource for those set on dismantling the hierarchies and segregations that the partisans of Order and Tradition seek to revive and reimpose."

Alberto Toscano (Author), Michael Page (Narrator)

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[Portuguese] - Um ciclista contra o nazismo

"Na Itália ocupada pelos nazistas, um atleta tornou-se um herói inusitado. Gino Bartali, lendário ciclista italiano vencedor de três Giros d'Italia e dois Tour de France, não se limitou às suas vitórias esportivas. Ele usou sua bicicleta para salvar centenas de judeus perseguidos, transportando documentos falsos escondidos no interior de sua bicicleta, desafiando assim o regime nazifacista com sua coragem e fé inabaláveis. Alberto Toscano revela a história emocionante de um homem justo e bondoso, que preferiu arriscar sua própria vida a comprometer seus ideais. Uma narrativa inspiradora sobre coragem, fé e humanidade que fará você repensar o verdadeiro significado de heroísmo. Um relato para quem busca histórias reais de heróis comuns que mudaram o curso da Segunda Guerra Mundial, sem jamais esperar reconhecimento. Um exemplo de humanidade que ecoa até os dias de hoje."

Alberto Toscano (Author), N.N. (digitally narrated) (Narrator)

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