“The president may have changed, but the apocalypse continues. When you’re living through an apocalypse, the most fatal mistake you can make is to convince yourself it’s something else, that everything can somehow go back to normal. Normal is what got us here, and there’s no way out now except to go right on through it.”

In “The Fall of the Alt Right Came from Antifascism,” Burley gives antifascists the credit for destroying the Alt Right movement through effective organizing. To anyone who lived through the four years of the Trump regime as an antifascist, this is a welcome recognition of what we know to be true: when we confronted the Alt Right, we were able to defeat them.

“If apocalypse is coming either way – if it’s already here – then there is nothing to be gained by refusing the struggle. There is nothing to be gained by turning aside and refusing to confront the awful world we’ve inherited. That world is in the process of dying anyway… and what comes next is up to us.”

The following is excerpted from Shane Burley's new book: Fascism Today: What It Is And How To End It, published by AK Press. A review by Christopher Scott Thompson will appear 15 December here at Gods&Radicals.

while the Alt Right is the U.S. and Europe were singing the identitarian’s praises, a celebrity in the U.S. pagan community was capitalizing on this to renew his call for racial tribalism.

Shane Burley and Alexander Reid Ross discuss the New/Alt/Fascist Right

For pagans drawn to the Aesir and Vanir, the avenues are available for building a Heathen foundation that is friendly to a multi-ethnic and progressive community.

From journalist Shane Burley, an account of an interview with Augustus Sol Invictus with uncomfortable implications for Paganism & Polytheism