CUNY Offered English Course on ‘Global Antifa’ to Discuss ‘Antifascism’
“How can [authoritarian populist] regimes be resisted and how can futures of collective liberation be won?”
Antifa doesn’t exist. Just because colleges offer courses about them doesn’t mean it’s real. Right?
Campus Reform reports:
CUNY offers course on ‘Global Antifa’ to discuss ‘antifascism’ and ‘racial capitalism’
In the spring of 2025, the graduate center at the City University of New York (CUNY) in New York City offered an English course entitled “Global Antifa,” the Washington Times reports.
According to the course description, the seminar was based on “the premise that racialized and colonized peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing, challenging, and dismantling fascism, white supremacy, and other modes of authoritarian rule over the last century.”
The course covered topics such as “antifascist traditions,” “racial justice,” “anti-imperialist movements,” “intersectional feminism,” and “contradictions of capitalism.”
Students read the works of Enzo Traverso, Aimé Césaire, Hannah Arendt, as well as “analysts of colonial fascism like George Padmore and Maaza Mengiste, feminist and queer critics of racial capitalism like Angela Davis and Audre Lorde, and writers on global authoritarian populism such as Roberto Bolaño and Arundhati Roy,” the course description reports.
Listed class reading material includes “Colonial Fascisms,” “Black Marxist Antifascism,” “Queer Antifa,” and “Eco-Fascism and Border Abolition.”
CUNY’s ‘Global Antifa,’ course sought to answer the question, “How can [authoritarian populist] regimes be resisted and how can futures of collective liberation be won?”
The syllabus ‘Course Requirements’ section encouraged students to pursue “alternative forms of research,” such as “militant research” and “most efficacious ways to mobilize and disseminate knowledge around the crises of contemporary capitalism, liberal democracy, authoritarian populism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and eco-fascism, among other issues.”
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racial capitalism>>>ahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa
Militant research.
Does that mean participating in at least one riot?
Waitaminnit, there’s NO SUCH THING as Antifa! Everybody knows this!
Say rather the premise is that racialized and privileged peoples have been at the forefront of theorizing, championing, and promoting communism, fascism, assorted supremacies, and various modes of authoritarian rule over the last century.