With neo-fascist authoritarianism on the rise in the US and Europe, it seemed high time to revisit Woody Guthrie’s famous guitar. It is time to ask ourselves again, can music, art or culture be machines capable of killing fascists?
Acknowledging the wreckage of dreams around us, fascism feeds on the longing for a glorious nationalist patriarchal imagined past. If not our own liberatory art and culture to resist it, then what?