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My name is Fritz McAlinden and this is The State Between Us, the anti-fascist podcast for dark dives into the ruling class insanity and fashy political cultures as well as our defenses against them through mutual aid and building each other up, sharing knowledge, and…

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Sep 23, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    38. A History of Anarchism in China p.1: Paris Tofu Grinder w/ Laura (opens the original)

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    Laura rejoins The State Between Us to tell the story of anarchism in China from the late-19th century through the early 20th. Though largely forgotten today, anarchism was the dominant revolutionary framework for Chinese radicals for decades, and each of the three major strands - 'Paris', 'Tokyo', and 'Guangzhou' - offered unique visions for radical change. In part one, Laura explains the historical conditions that gave rise to anarchist organizing in China and introduces us to the Paris group a

  2. Episode · Sep 10, 2026

    37. Marquis de Morès Fails into Fascism, or, Real Nazis Wear Cowboy Hats [TEASER] (opens the original)

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    Before the fash wore black shirts, they wore Buffalo Bill dusters and cowboy hats. This is the absurd story of Marquis de Morès, a 19th century French aristocrat and degenerate gambler whose ridiculous misadventures and financial flops in the American West, combined with his modern "social Catholic" variety of antisemitism, made him not only Europe's first fascist, but more specifically its first Nazi. Note: Fritz probably paywalled this episode solely to prevent the general public from hearing

  3. Episode · Aug 26, 2026

    36. Another Biggest Lie: Six centuries of anti-Roma oppression in Europe, condensed. (opens the original)

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    Following a recent attack against a Roma settlement in Slovakia, TSBU assembles an introductory primer on Europe's genocidal treatment of Roma people over the centuries. From the early-modern period to the 21st century, this story passes through the Holy Roman Empire's Mitteleuropa, Mediterranean states, the Balkans and Eastern Europe, as well as Tudor and Elizabethan England. Through feudalism and capitalism, through fascism, liberalism, and socialism, Europe's anti-Roma racism has always been

  4. Episode · Aug 13, 2026

    "The Biggest Lie": The Southern Roots of American Fascism w/ Joseph Kelly [TRAILER] (opens the original)

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    FULL FREE EPISODE at patreon.com/TheStateBetweenUs Author Joseph Kelly joins Fritz to discuss his new book, The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915 (Bloomsbury, 2026), and explains how the modern ideology of human inequality was built brick-by-brick by some of the nastiest villains of the 19th and 20th centuries. From the antebellum plantations of the Democrat south to the imperialist adventurism of the Republican north, Joe draws a direct line between the lies, fantasies,

  5. Episode · Aug 12, 2026

    34. "The Biggest Lie": The Southern Roots of American Fascism w/ Joseph Kelly (opens the original)

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    Author Joseph Kelly joins Fritz to discuss his new book, The Biggest Lie: The Prehistory of American Fascism, 1818-1915 (Bloomsbury, 2026), and explains how the modern ideology of human inequality was built brick-by-brick by some of the nastiest villains of the 19th and 20th centuries. From the antebellum plantations of the Democrat south to the imperialist adventurism of the Republican north, Joe draws a direct line between the lies, fantasies, and violence that destroyed post-war Reconstructio

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