A review by keatonlamle
Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism and the Politics of Crisis by Alberto Toscano

3.0

This book is really important and insightful for our moment, which is why it’s such a shame that it is written and translated in such a horribly abstract, unclear manner. Every paragraph reads like one of those samples from Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language.” The not-un construction appears regularly. I’m an academic so I trudged through it. Most people won’t. And they need to.

I’m not saying it needed to be a popularizing work. But even as academic work, the book is too opaque and jargon-laden. The book often fails on a diction/syntax level. A shame.