"Outside agitators", "ANTIFA", conspiracy theories and disinformation
Submitted by R Totale on Jun 1 2020 12:14
A compilation of arguments addressing some of the claims and conspiracy theories that have been circulating about "outside agitators" and "ANTIFA" in recent days. These were originally posted as social media threads by Crimethinc and It's Going Down.
Beneath conspiracy theories, the class war
The danger of conspiracy theories is their ability to breed apathy and resignation, offering an easy narrative that makes people susceptible to influence and limits social change. There is another way.
Bonzo goes to Oslo: Christian fundamentalists and the far-right strike a new pose
Submitted by R Totale on Feb 26 2019 22:00
A look at recent attempts by religious fundamentalist reactionaries and conspiracy theorists to build coalitions with "gender critical" feminists.
Hysterical populism - Robert Kurz
Robert Kurz on scapegoating, moral panics and conspiracy theory culture.
Anarchist Critique of TZM
An anarchist critique of The Zeitgeist Movement.
Prophets of deceit: a study of the techniques of the American agitator - Leo Löwenthal & Norbert Guterman
Part of the 'Studies in Prejudice' series sponsored by the American Jewish Committee in the 1940s/50s. Löwenthal and Guterman's 1949 text provides a detailed study of the figure of the right-wing demagogue and their techniques, with an introduction by Max Horkheimer.
I was a psychic for the FBI
The parapsychology con game.
Adbusted
Behind the bizarre ideology that fuels Adbusters.
How to overthrow the Illuminati
This pamphlet gives an excellent account, analysis and debunking of conspiracy theories and proposes a practical alternative for poor, black and working class people for emancipation.
Occupied with conspiracies? The occupy movement, populist anti-elitism, and the conspiracy theorists
Spencer Sunshine discusses the infiltration of the Occupy movement by conspiracy theorists.
