Fascism should not get to define the left.
Fascism is not just a bad attitude or an ugly campaign slogan. It is a politics of obedience: hierarchy over equality, myth over truth, force over consent, and loyalty to power over the rights of human beings.
The left is not a secret conspiracy. It is workers organizing. It is people resisting segregation, raids, bosses, poverty, surveillance, and political violence. It is the public record of ordinary people fighting for power over their own lives.
That history does not become suspicious because authoritarians hate being remembered accurately.
