FSEM – 2026
When reading the anarchist cookbook, I was initially put off by the somewhat dry opening, where he details the history and politics of anarchism. This was an important read, and served to give context for the rest of the book, but it was a lot duller than I expected going… Read more“The Anarchist Cookbook – Dangerous, partially outdated, and yet, relevant.”
The bulk of the SCUM manifesto is divided into two main concepts, Solanas’ current disdain and grievances towards men, and her view of an egalitarian, female-only future free from things like money, illness, or death. To present the former, Solanas gives a long list of issues that she believes men… Read more“The SCUM Manifesto – A life and career consumed by hate”
When watching Triumph of the Will, one of the things that stands out the most is just how grandiose everything is. The movie opens up with an aerial shot, flying through the clouds, and descends until you can see the city of Nuremberg, which almost looks like it’s out of… Read more“Triumph of the Will – The Power of Persuasion”
Distrust of the government is nothing new. In the days of Flock cameras, political division, and mass online surveillance, it’s common for the younger generation especially to feel as if the American government doesn’t exactly have it’ best interests in mind. Occasionally, though, tensions boil over, and a person’s hatred… Read more“Abstract idea: Ruby Ridge, Waco, and the OKC bombing: The interconnected story of anti-government violence and domestic terrorism in the 20th century.”
Image Credit: Medium I wouldn’t say that I am necessarily desensitized to hatred, but when reading things like Mein Kampf, or Protocols, there’s a degree of seperation, where, while they both lead to mass amounts of violence and cruelty, the reader isn’t necessarily confronted by the real-world effects of the… Read more“From page to life – the experience of the Holocaust Museum”
An Arabic translation of Mein Kampf. To attempt to contextualize Mein Kampf without mentioning the preceeding events of the First World War, and Hitler’s service during it, would be nothing short of foolish. In fact, Germany as a whole was shaped by the war, with many of the eventual leaders… Read more“An unstable peace – The Context of Mein Kampf”
When the Mannheim introduction spoke about how poorly written Mein Kampf was, I was expecting it to be in relation to excessive grammatical mistakes, spelling errors, etc. And maybe those were present, and were simply cleared up by the translators, but one thing they couldn’t fix is the brevity, or… Read more“Mein Kampf – An exceedingly wordy look into German Nationalism”
I feel like the Boy in the Striped Pajamas somewhat fails in it’s messaging, and as someone who’s studied the holocaust in high school and read about the realities of life during it, it does a poor job of conveying the horrible circumstances and inconceivably cruel treatment of millions of… Read more“I did not care for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas”
A photo of Henry Ford, who was responsible for Protocols’ circulation in the United States As many modern analyses of Protocols have noted, the work is, somewhat unsurprisingly, fraudulent. While it was purported to have been written by a secret Jewish society bent on world domination, the real origin of… Read more“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – A History of Hate”
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is, sadly, hardly anything that I haven’t seen before. Unfortunately, throughout the world’s history the Jewish people have been target to countless attempts to defame and villainize them, and this book is unsurprisingly no different. The work is presented as a text stolen… Read more“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion – Pointless Propaganda”