How to Live the anti-fascist life

Abstract

The lecture outlines an anti-fascist philosophy of affirmation, inspired critical neo-Spinozist philosophies and contemporary feminist and anti-racist thought. It discusses the anti-fascist life as the permanent critique of power, racist and antisemitic exclusions, sexism, homo and transphobia and authoritarianism. It defines fascism also as the cult of negativity and the instrumental use of despair for the sake of destroying the social construction of shared horizons of hope. An ethics of affirmation is therefore the key to the anti-fascist life.