Autorentext

A.M. Gittlitz's work, focusing on counterculture, radical politics, and social history, has been featured in The New York Times, LA Review of Books, The Baffler, Vice, The Nation, among others. He has co-hosted the dirtbag-left Antifada Podcast since 2017, which ranked in the top 100 podcasts on Patreon and receives more than 10,000 listens per episode. In 2020, he published I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism with Pluto Press. His book Metropolitans: Baseball, Class Struggle, and The People's Team will be released by Astra House in March 2026.

Klappentext

A radical rethinking of resistance in the age of Trump's return: why the absence of mass mobilization may be the most telling political act of all.

Why didn't the streets fill the way they did in 2017, when Trump first took office and resistance surged? Journalist and theorist A. M. Gittlitz delivers a provocative answer: today's political stillness isn't surrender-it's evolution.

While most books rush to celebrate or critique the resistance, Beyond Antifascism dares to ask what its absence reveals. Drawing on radical communist theory and on-the-ground analysis of flashpoints from Charlottesville to ICE facility closures, Gittlitz argues that traditional leftist frameworks-social democracy, apolitical workerism, and vanguardism-are no longer suited to our fragmented reality. Rather than mourning the decline of mass movements, he shows how this apparent dormancy may signal a strategic pause: an intuitive recognition that new forms of collective action are needed.

With clarity and urgency, Beyond Antifascism reframes our understanding of power, protest, and political change, offering not nostalgia but a compelling vision for what might come next.