I should have done this a long time ago. One of the first criticisms of the book, you may recall, is that I’m off my rocker; that I made up all of the crazy talk and no sane person could possibly agree with me. That’s changed as it’s dawned on people that much — though not all — of what I’ve done is synthesize scholarship and arguments that have long been marginalized or ignored. So whereas before I was a crazed lone gunman, now I’m mere dime store popularizer. That’s progress of course.

Anyway, on the web one of the sites that’s been finding fascism on the left for a very long time is Australia’s John Ray. I was sent his garroting of Neiwert at his blog Dissecting the Left this morning and it reminded me that I should have alerted readers interested in this stuff about his work a while ago. You’ll find much of this argument familiar, for example. Anyway, I’m delighted to form the Northern Hemisphere’s side of the antipodean anti-fascism tag-team. (I’m sure someone will tell me if I’m using antipodean wrong.