This Wreckage Microfascist Machines w/ Jack Z. Bratich
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Nov 26, 2025 
Jack Z. Bratich, Rutgers professor and author of On Microfascism, maps how fascist impulses form in everyday life. He traces microfascism through the manosphere, campus targeting, stochastic violence, and gendered dynamics. Short, sharp conversations explore how ordinary desires, online networks, and cultural machines seed political harm.
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Mark Bray Harassed Off Campus
- Jack describes Mark Bray being targeted by campus right-wing lists, receiving death threats, and fleeing the country to teach remotely.
- The episode uses this real harassment case to illustrate how anti-fascist scholars face coordinated online swarming and threats.
Antifa Will Regroup Into New Forms
- Expect anti-fascist tactics to change form; visible street Antifa may retreat and reappear integrated into other movements or covert tactics.
- Bratich warns that antifascists often regroup, reintegrate into existing struggles, and avoid repeating earlier visible tactics like black bloc displays.
Microfascism Is An Ecology Not Just Acts
- Microfascism operates both as individual acts (microaggressions) and as an ecology or microbiome that produces hostile environments.
- Bratich emphasizes networked collectivities rather than just isolated authoritarian personalities.
