El Taller: What ‘Late Fascism’ Looks Like with Alberto Toscano
In this second part of El Taller’s conversation with Alberto Toscano, author of Late Fascism, hosts Kurt Hackbarth and José Luis Granados Ceja dive deeper into how fascism manifests across different regions and histories beyond the familiar 1930s European model.
They discuss the four dimensions of contemporary fascism, the U.S. retrenchment in Latin America, and why the region wants to stay out of Washington’s games. Toscano explains the differential experience of fascism: how marginalized communities in the U.S. have lived under systemic violence long before white suburbia “discovered” authoritarianism under Trump.
The conversation expands to fascism and Zionism, exploring debates within Israel’s liberal center about rising authoritarianism, and how these discussions intersect with global struggles for liberation, from Latin America to Palestine.
This is a rich, global, and theoretical deep dive into what “late fascism” looks like today, and why understanding it through anti-colonial and Global South lenses is more urgent than ever.
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