American media is calling this an act by Anarchists, they seem to have lost all sense of what words even mean. It is a fascist coup being attempted by a fascistic mob.
In light of this, here are a few things that you could read to better understand the fascists' ideology:
In light of this, here are a few things that you could read to better understand the fascists' ideology:
Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco
A short essay by a man who grew up around the Italian blackshirts, as a child indoctrinated into fascism. Eco gives a "fascist minimum", breaking down the essentials of the ideology and how it differs from Left authoritarianism.
https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Eco-urfascism.pdf
A short essay by a man who grew up around the Italian blackshirts, as a child indoctrinated into fascism. Eco gives a "fascist minimum", breaking down the essentials of the ideology and how it differs from Left authoritarianism.
https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Eco-urfascism.pdf
Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It by Leon Trotsky
A Marxist approach to the fascism of the 20th century, seen through Trotsky's writings. While the title is self-explanatory, Trotsky also highlights key strategic failures of Left parties of the time.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
A Marxist approach to the fascism of the 20th century, seen through Trotsky's writings. While the title is self-explanatory, Trotsky also highlights key strategic failures of Left parties of the time.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm
The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton
Paxton maps out how the fascists shaped societies around them to form their regimes, and from this draws a definition of the ideology. The most comprehensive analysis on the workings of fascism on this list.
https://libcom.org/files/Robert%20O.%20Paxton-The%20Anatomy%20of%20Fascism%20%20-Knopf%20(2004).pdf
Paxton maps out how the fascists shaped societies around them to form their regimes, and from this draws a definition of the ideology. The most comprehensive analysis on the workings of fascism on this list.
https://libcom.org/files/Robert%20O.%20Paxton-The%20Anatomy%20of%20Fascism%20%20-Knopf%20(2004).pdf