Steve D’Arcy
@stevedarcy.bsky.social
Antifascism, philosophy.
Author, “Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy” (2013); “Frege and Fascism” (Routledge, 2025).
Author, “Languages of the Unheard: Why Militant Protest is Good for Democracy” (2013); “Frege and Fascism” (Routledge, 2025).
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Steve D’Arcy
@stevedarcy.bsky.social
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Frege and Fascism
This book is the first to examine in minutiae the politics of Gottlob Frege (1848–1925), and his connections with various traditions of far-right and fascist thought.
Frege was a philosopher of logic,...
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My new book, ‘Frege and Fascism’ (Routledge) is available today. It’s the first book-length critical study of the extremist political thought of Gottlob Frege (1848-1925). Frege was the founder of analytic philosophy and the most important logician since Aristotle.
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On the 100th anniversary of Gottlob Frege’s death, we should think carefully about how to critically engage with this complicated figure. In our time, fascism is attempting a resurgence. What can we learn from the failings of German intellectuals like him in the 1920s?
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Frege’s Ambiguous Legacy (guest post) - Daily Nous
"We ought to ask ourselves, how did Frege’s claim to expertise in the matter of thinking fare, at that crucial moment when Germany most needed its intellectuals to rise to the defense of the endangere...
dailynous.com
July 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
On the 100th anniversary of Gottlob Frege’s death, we should think carefully about how to critically engage with this complicated figure. In our time, fascism is attempting a resurgence. What can we learn from the failings of German intellectuals like him in the 1920s?
dailynous.com/2024/08/15/f...
dailynous.com/2024/08/15/f...
Those who agitate in support of crimes against humanity are also criminals against humanity. They, too, should be held accountable.
As Gaza Starves, Remember Writers Who Opposed UNRWA
These individuals have written opinion pieces calling for UNRWA to be defunded or dismantled
www.readthemaple.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Those who agitate in support of crimes against humanity are also criminals against humanity. They, too, should be held accountable.
An important Jewish perspective on the deployment of the notorious “IHRA definition” of antisemitism in Canada and its use to promote the scourge of APR.
Silenced in our Name: A Jewish Commentary on Canada's IHRA Handbook
Read or download Silenced in our Name here (PDF)
Across North America, the far right and pro-Israel groups have been leading a repressive crackdown on Palestine solidarity. Canadians are watch...
www.ijvcanada.org
June 16, 2025 at 7:37 PM
An important Jewish perspective on the deployment of the notorious “IHRA definition” of antisemitism in Canada and its use to promote the scourge of APR.
“Waiting, vacillating, remaining silent and failing or, worse, refusing to act in the face of mounting and incontrovertible evidence of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity can no longer be options….”
Prime Minister Carney must take decisive action to end genocide in Gaza — Alex Neve: Moving Rights Along
We write because of the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month, which is broadly understood by international law experts and leading human rights organ...
www.alexneve.ca
June 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“Waiting, vacillating, remaining silent and failing or, worse, refusing to act in the face of mounting and incontrovertible evidence of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity can no longer be options….”
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I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
June 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don't care if these monstrous ICE raids are a "federal operation". This is authoritarian violence, plain and simple.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
Just because Stephen Miller has kidnapping quotas for brown people he doesn't want to see on the street doesn't mean we have to think it's okay.
The fascists won this battle, but hopefully it will add fuel to the growing working-class backlash against the white-nationalist Far Right.
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'It will be the last thing I take down': Sarah Inama announces resignation from West Ada
YouTube video by KTVB
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May 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The fascists won this battle, but hopefully it will add fuel to the growing working-class backlash against the white-nationalist Far Right.
youtu.be/wb25OsxDY1w?...
youtu.be/wb25OsxDY1w?...
Palestinian unions: “2.3 million sisters & brothers in Gaza who have survived…military aggression, land theft, destruction of entire communities, settler-colonial apartheid & occupation…are counting on meaningful solidarity actions, not just rhetorical support.”
socialistproject.ca/2025/05/no-l...
socialistproject.ca/2025/05/no-l...
No Labour for Genocide – No Complicity with Apartheid
Israel is only able to continue its livestreamed genocide against Palestinians, including daily massacres, burning our children, men and women alive, or starving and thirsting them to death, due to th...
socialistproject.ca
May 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Palestinian unions: “2.3 million sisters & brothers in Gaza who have survived…military aggression, land theft, destruction of entire communities, settler-colonial apartheid & occupation…are counting on meaningful solidarity actions, not just rhetorical support.”
socialistproject.ca/2025/05/no-l...
socialistproject.ca/2025/05/no-l...
Some day, after the oligarchs and their bootlickers are permanently defeated, we'll have a world where artists are considered controversial when they *refuse* to condemn Genocide.
May 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Some day, after the oligarchs and their bootlickers are permanently defeated, we'll have a world where artists are considered controversial when they *refuse* to condemn Genocide.
“Suddenly, days after calling out [Genocide] at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes….The real crimes are not in our performances. The real crimes are in the silence and complicity of those in power. Shame on them.”— KNEECAP
What the thousands of young Americans at Coachella think about genocide 👇👏
April 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“Suddenly, days after calling out [Genocide] at Coachella to applause and solidarity, there is an avalanche of outrage and condemnation by the political classes….The real crimes are not in our performances. The real crimes are in the silence and complicity of those in power. Shame on them.”— KNEECAP
Do consider joining this boycott of Columbia — whose quisling-oriented administration poses a threat to free inquiry and democratic politics on university campuses.
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Boycott Columbia Now
**To sign please fill out this form.** We, the undersigned, commit to a boycott of Columbia University in solidarity with students, faculty, and staff targeted by the U.S. Government and university ad...
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March 26, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Do consider joining this boycott of Columbia — whose quisling-oriented administration poses a threat to free inquiry and democratic politics on university campuses.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
“Researchers [in Canada] working on projects funded wholly or in part by American federal agencies…asked to confirm that their research does not include a climate or ‘environmental justice’ component, does not contain diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) elements…, [or] ‘gender ideology’….”
Trump administration threatening Canadian researchers
(Ottawa – March 17, 2025) The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is warning that the
www.caut.ca
March 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Researchers [in Canada] working on projects funded wholly or in part by American federal agencies…asked to confirm that their research does not include a climate or ‘environmental justice’ component, does not contain diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) elements…, [or] ‘gender ideology’….”
The status-degradation ritual being inflicted on Columbia U. — including placing the Dept of Middle Eastern, S. Asian, & African Studies under “academic receivership” — should convince everyone w/ eyes to see that you can’t appease the fascists. Every concession emboldens them to demand more & more.
March 14, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The status-degradation ritual being inflicted on Columbia U. — including placing the Dept of Middle Eastern, S. Asian, & African Studies under “academic receivership” — should convince everyone w/ eyes to see that you can’t appease the fascists. Every concession emboldens them to demand more & more.
Over 2 million have signed on to these letters opposing the persecution of anti-Apartheid activist Mahmoud Khalil. Please do so, if you haven’t already.
March 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Over 2 million have signed on to these letters opposing the persecution of anti-Apartheid activist Mahmoud Khalil. Please do so, if you haven’t already.
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old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
March 3, 2025 at 12:54 AM
old Soviet joke for our times:
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.
Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”
Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”
Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”
“All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.”
— Karl Marx, 1856.
— Karl Marx, 1856.
Christie's AI art auction draws big-money bids — and thousands of protests signatures
The auction house sees the sale as a transformative moment in art history, but critics claim that many of the pieces on display were made using AI models built on copyrighted work.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 2:32 AM
“All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force.”
— Karl Marx, 1856.
— Karl Marx, 1856.
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OCUFA's Pre-budget Submission:
Risking Ontario’s Future: The Dangers of Underfunding Ontario
Universities
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Risking Ontario’s Future: The Dangers of Underfunding Ontario
Universities
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ocufa.on.ca
February 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
OCUFA's Pre-budget Submission:
Risking Ontario’s Future: The Dangers of Underfunding Ontario
Universities
ocufa.on.ca/assets/2024....
Risking Ontario’s Future: The Dangers of Underfunding Ontario
Universities
ocufa.on.ca/assets/2024....
Polling re: support for the legitimacy of political violence by right-wing nationalist militants (14%) and for enforcement by the Trump Admin of presidential decrees in defiance of court orders invalidating them (11%) supports an estimate of between 19-28 million.
publicautonomy.org/2025/02/23/h...
publicautonomy.org/2025/02/23/h...
How Many Americans are Fascists?
It is not easy to determine how many fascists there are in the United States. I think it’s fully clear that, by a considerable majority, Americans largely reject fascism, in part because they suppo…
publicautonomy.org
February 23, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Polling re: support for the legitimacy of political violence by right-wing nationalist militants (14%) and for enforcement by the Trump Admin of presidential decrees in defiance of court orders invalidating them (11%) supports an estimate of between 19-28 million.
publicautonomy.org/2025/02/23/h...
publicautonomy.org/2025/02/23/h...
This is good news! The Giller Prize can return to being an important literary prize, after listening to those who wanted it to break with its now former sponsor, Scotiabank, which invests heavily in Elbit Systems, a Genocide-oriented military technology firm that played a bloody role in Gaza.
Giller Foundation, lead sponsor Scotiabank end partnership
The foundation that administers the Giller Prize didn’t say why the partnership ended, but the sponsorship has recently come under fire over a Scotiabank subsidiary’s investment in an Israeli arms com...
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This is good news! The Giller Prize can return to being an important literary prize, after listening to those who wanted it to break with its now former sponsor, Scotiabank, which invests heavily in Elbit Systems, a Genocide-oriented military technology firm that played a bloody role in Gaza.
Far-Right trade union presidents, Sean O’Brien (@teamsters.bsky.social) and Ed Kelly (International Association of Fire Fighters), posing at the Trump inauguration with Musk-sycophant Ramaswamy. They should be chased out of the labor movement and exposed as enemies of working-class people.
January 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Far-Right trade union presidents, Sean O’Brien (@teamsters.bsky.social) and Ed Kelly (International Association of Fire Fighters), posing at the Trump inauguration with Musk-sycophant Ramaswamy. They should be chased out of the labor movement and exposed as enemies of working-class people.
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🧵 Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we hold close the memories of all who were murdered by the Nazi regime. 6 million Jews and millions more victims — including Roma, queer and trans people, disabled people, and political dissenters — were killed by the Nazis.
January 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
🧵 Today, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we hold close the memories of all who were murdered by the Nazi regime. 6 million Jews and millions more victims — including Roma, queer and trans people, disabled people, and political dissenters — were killed by the Nazis.
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This is truly shameful of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. They fired @katherinefranke.bsky.social. @aaup.bsky.social stands with Professor Franke and against this repression of pro-Palestinian speech. academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...
Statement by Professor Katherine Franke
BY KATHERINE FRANKE The following is the text of a statement issued on January 10, 2025 by Katherine Franke, formerly the James L. Dohr Professor of Law at Columbia University. It is posted here w…
academeblog.org
January 11, 2025 at 1:46 AM
This is truly shameful of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social. They fired @katherinefranke.bsky.social. @aaup.bsky.social stands with Professor Franke and against this repression of pro-Palestinian speech. academeblog.org/2025/01/10/s...
Historians opposing scholasticide. 👏👏👏✊✊✊
January 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Historians opposing scholasticide. 👏👏👏✊✊✊
“[W]hat should we want from an artist, and what kind of person would someone have to be to give us what we have reason to want from an artist? [This] film addresses that very general question by reformulating it into one that is very specific: who is the real heir to Woody Guthrie?”
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boxd.it/8fHVI5
A ★★★★½ review of A Complete Unknown (2024)
I heard someone say that “A Complete Unknown” doesn’t have “anything to say.” If so, it’s not for want of trying. This film is trying very deliberately to pose a question about art and artists. That q...
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December 31, 2024 at 11:06 PM
“[W]hat should we want from an artist, and what kind of person would someone have to be to give us what we have reason to want from an artist? [This] film addresses that very general question by reformulating it into one that is very specific: who is the real heir to Woody Guthrie?”
boxd.it/8fHVI5
boxd.it/8fHVI5
A brief paper I published a few yrs ago, on “the ethical basis of trade unionism,” namely, the principle of solidarity, according to which “an injury to one is an injury to all.”
From the book, “We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times“ (eds. Levine-Rasky & Kowalchuk; 2020).
From the book, “We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times“ (eds. Levine-Rasky & Kowalchuk; 2020).
philpapers.org
December 28, 2024 at 5:47 AM
A brief paper I published a few yrs ago, on “the ethical basis of trade unionism,” namely, the principle of solidarity, according to which “an injury to one is an injury to all.”
From the book, “We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times“ (eds. Levine-Rasky & Kowalchuk; 2020).
From the book, “We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times“ (eds. Levine-Rasky & Kowalchuk; 2020).