All You Fascists Are Bound To Lose

Collection: Resist Rebel Revolt

Format: Article

Author: Melissa Nadia Viviana

Date: February 28, 2025

Tags: Fascism, Resistance, History, The Future

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The Encyclopaedia Britannica describes the definition of fascism as:

An authoritarian or totalitarian form of government with: 

- Extreme militaristic nationalism;

- Contempt for electoral democracy or liberalism;

- A belief in a natural social hierarchy & the rule of elites;

& - The desire to subordinate the individual’s interest for the good of the regime

Robert Paxton writes in his 2004 book, The Anatomy of Fascism, that fascism is:

A form of political behavior marked by: 

- Obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood, 

- Compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, 

- A mass-based party of committed nationalist militants,

- Working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, 

- Abandoning democratic liberties, 

& - Pursuing with redemptive violence—without ethical or legal restraints—the goals of internal cleansing & external expansion

Yikes. That sounds terrifyingly accurate.

In Paul Mason’s book, How To Stop Fascism, he reminds us that:

“The number one thing we need to learn from history is that fascism takes off when large numbers of people experience a kind of mass religious conversion to far right ideologies. This conversion happens quickly. From 2% of the voters in an election to 17% practically over night.”

He goes on to say 

That in the 1930s, a French anarchist toured early Nazi Germany during the beginning seeds of their religious fascism fever. 

The Frenchman said that the only thing that might have stopped this takeover was a living, breathing, alternative to the problems that fascism promised to solve.

An alternative that is more promising, more attractive, more visionary than the racist, misogynistic utopia that the fascists are proposing.

And that this alternative proposal or vision needs to be built by a coalition of the center left and the extreme left. 

Paul Mason said that when the center left and extreme left are at war with each other, the fascists win (as happened in Germany during the rise of Hitler). The only thing that can stop them is a coalition with a strong enough vision for the future.

So this is it. This is our time to become radical and to build a coalition of radicals. 

But not radical in action––radical in VISION.

The fascists are trying to burn everything down. The only way we can stop them is to rise up with a more inspiring vision of the future for America.

So if you have a radical people-power movement that was too fringe in 2010 - now is your time to bring it out. Universal income? Environmental sustainability? Take it out.

Start talking about bolder and bolder solutions.

Why? Because the truth is, we have to get to work creating a new vision for America that combats a seductive, nearly-religious conversion that provides simplistic, comforting solutions for our current problems.

As Paul Mason says: fascism provides solutions that answer to “a collapse of a belief system, the collapse of an identity that a society holds. The mass disorientation of new systems and new paradigms emerging.” 

But it does so by relying on simplistic solutions that your average white, male can reliably fall back on. For example, white supremacy and gender superiority. Which aren’t visionary ideologies. In fact, they’re lazy, but also reliable and comforting ideologies that simply promise to restore stability within a paradigm that is bringing mass disorientation.

In order to build a vision that can answer to this mass disorientation, the center left and the far left need to build a radical coalition around a new vision for the future.

And that means that we have to ditch the paradigms we inherited from 50 years of Republican Capitalist propaganda. 

We have to fight back against the subtle conditioning that technology has given us through two decades of cellphones, apps, & social media.

We have to create a radical vision that fights to represent us, against the world order that the tech autocrats are trying to turn us into.

And the bigger and grander our vision, the better.

Today, on the scheduled economic blackout, I want to share a few of my thoughts to get us started. And I also want to invite you to join my Discord: a Resist Rebel Revolt Fascism community.

First I want to talk about getting organized: 

One way that social media fucks with our brains is that it gives us 10,000 pieces of content one single time. 

Which creates information overwhelm. 

In reality, we need far fewer messages, repeated multiple times so that we can digest, absorb, and integrate the meaning and value that these messages have. 

Just like when you’re learning a new language, you have to hear those words repeated many times, in order for the content to implant into your memory. Learning a language by hearing 10,000 new words, only once, will never work.

This is how social media scrolling becomes a vapid tool. 

By constantly scrolling and absorbing 1,000 pieces of new information, we write over the old information quickly and lose our ability to remember and act on even the useful things we learn.

This was driving me crazy for a few weeks. So I began to organize myself in order to combat this. Here are three things I began to do differently:

Yes, I repeat myself constantly. Probably 4 new posts for every 6 reposts. 

But the reason I do this is that I prefer good information to be shared repeatedly, week after week, so that we’re reminded of what’s important and we can actually integrate it into our memory and use these mantras to sustain our actions.

MORE AND MORE information DAY AFTER DAY only overwhelms us. 

While good information given to us repeatedly, helps solidify its meaning so that we can remember to apply it.

2 - For this reason, I’ve created spreadsheets for my bookmarks 

I created a spreadsheet in order to intentionally pull out articles and resources to revisit. There in the spreadsheet, I have notes about why they’re important. 

These include websites for various non-profits, PDFs & resources tracking executive orders, legacy media articles, Substack essays, and even video speeches that inspired me. 

Our goal is not just to be aware of information, it’s to act on it.

To use these new ideas to inform our behaviors in the future. And thus, we need to be able to remember these ideas and revisit them frequently.

Even if that’s just a reminder of the best ways to have malicious compliance. For example: resources like the Simple Sabotage Field Manual: a CIA de-classified field manual that “describes ways to train normal people to be purposefully annoying telephone operators, dysfunctional train conductors, befuddling middle managers, blundering factory workers, unruly movie theater patrons, and so on. In other words, teaching people to do their jobs badly” in order to disrupt fascism.

I had already created a Discord for my local Women’s Rights Group. I’d been the admin for 3 years, but I wanted to move them off of Meta platforms, so I created a Discord. 

After a month of using Discord, what I realized is that any time I came across a Youtube, Bluesky post, Meta post, or a Substack article that was informative, inspiring, or helpful - I had the impulse to share it to Discord, because Discord was working like a storage space for all of the great content that I saw.

Discord is organized via Threads, and each Thread has a different topic and a different emotional need being fulfilled.

For example: “good news & wins” is one Thread. While “bad news about DOGE” is another. 

This enables me to create “emotional threads” that fulfill the purpose to either:

1. Selectively inspire people & cheer them up.

2. Or to inform people about the influx of heavy and bad news.

By separating their emotional content, people know what to expect from each Thread.

On a day that they need to be cheered up, they can visit the happy threads and get inspiration. While limiting the amount of bad news that they receive, because they know exactly where that content is stored in the server.

We don’t have this luxury while scrolling through our Social Media timelines. And thus, we have no regulation of our emotions. 

Discord allows us to “Choose Our Own Adventure” - because, instead of scrolling on a random timeline that we have no control of, we can open up a specific thread that is inspiring when we need it. Or a thread that has entirely bad news when we’re emotionally prepared for it.

In fact, Discord even has the choice to tailor your own navigation menu to the threads you want to be informed of. So you can opt out and take any threads off your navigation that don’t interest you! How cool is that?

There are also active threads and passive threads—which both have their function in the activism community.

For example, a thread with memes is passive, you simply laugh.

(And that’s important! We all need a good chuckle once a day).

While a thread with a call-to-action—to call your representative on a new piece of legislation—is active. 

(Those are important, too. But an entire group with only active actions burns us out, so it’s helpful to create a space for people to relax too).

I hope you see where I’m going with this: 

Discord Threads enables people to sort and organize the many pieces of activism that are required for a sustainable resistance against fascism.

For example:

- Being inspired & sustaining hope

- Celebrating wins

- Maintaining the ability to be informed about bad news (in limited doses)

- Getting call-to-actions, for example, calling your representative about a piece of legislation

- Getting updated about specific protests

- Diving deep into Project 2025 or Neoreactionary Bros

- Sharing resources for trans & immigrants

- Getting news about how each of the billionaires: Zuck, Musk, Bezos are royally fucking us over

- Having a directory for independent journalists that can be trusted

- Having a boycott list of media companies that are capitulating to Trump

Over time, each thread becomes a sort of bookmark or folder to store banners, news, information, website links, etc within them.

And there are threads for each and every protest, which means each time I come across new information about a particular protest, I can go back to the specific thread and add new information there.

Woody Guthrie gets it: all you fascists are bound to lose, but only if we—ourselves—get organized.

So I decided to create a Discord for a larger group of people than my local Women’s Rights group. If you’re interested in joining, it’s called Resist Rebel Revolt Fascism.

I hope to begin to organize us into a Hive Mind of informed resistors. 

Please join, if you’d like to share the gems you’ve found across the internet with a group of resistors.

We already have over 700 people and dozens of threads. Look to the top of the server for the Rules, Site Map, & Discord Tips that will give you a little rundown of what to expect from the server.

Come join us!