Reddit reviews Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It

no, they really aren't. that's not what fascism is. if it was, fascism would have existed long before Mussolini.

If you actually want to understand our position as antifascists, and the positions of the people anti-fascism opposes, here are two books that will get you started:

• this is the best primer on antifa that you will find. anyone interested in antifa actions should read this. the author has been involved in leftist activism for a long time and is currently a member of an anarcho-communist organization that's well-regarded. the book here is presented for free. This is so important a work it should honestly be linked in the sidebar.
  
  
• this book is also highly important for the beginner and follows fascism from its inception into the modern day, up to around Charlottesville when both fascism and antifa more or less became mainstream. Unfortunately, this is not free. There are other books cataloging fascism, however, that you can find if you don't want to spend money. This one is just current and synthesizes a lot of older academic analyses of fascism.
  
  Umberto Eco's Ur Fascism is also highly regarded as one of the better analyses of the core of fascism. It's pretty short and it's free.
  
  There are many more excellent works on the subject, and I urge you to keep reading. Claiming that "racist laws are fascism" is... just... not right. At all.