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>>Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. From across the fearful twentieth century, here are twenty lessons about what it takes to oppose tyranny, adapted to the circumstances of today.<<
https://scholars.org/contribution/twenty-lessons-fighting-tyranny-twentieth
#Tyranny #TimothySnyder #ScholarsStrategyNetwork #USPol #Fascism
„Do not obey in advance.“ – Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny / https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny #timothysnyder
#TimothySnyder On Tyranny free resources: To use and to share, now or any time
Dear Friends,
I get asked all the time about posters and cards of the lessons On Tyranny to be posted or handed out. This brings back memories of the first publication, when I spent much of 2017 driving around in my pickup or walking around with a backpack: giving out the book, posting posters, and handing out cards.
I want you to know that there are free cards and posters of the twenty lessons of On Tyranny available for you at any time, just a click away. You may print them, post them, share them, pass them around, digitally or in the real world. All you have to do is follow this link and download or print the resources that it offers
I am happy if you buy the book, and I am happy that …
#TimothySnyder On Tyranny free resources: To use and to share, now or any time
Dear Friends,
I get asked all the time about posters and cards of the lessons On Tyranny to be posted or handed out. This brings back memories of the first publication, when I spent much of 2017 driving around in my pickup or walking around with a backpack: giving out the book, posting posters, and handing out cards.
I want you to know that there are free cards and posters of the twenty lessons of On Tyranny available for you at any time, just a click away. You may print them, post them, share them, pass them around, digitally or in the real world. All you have to do is follow this link and download or print the resources that it offers
I am happy if you buy the book, and I am happy that it has been a bestseller these last months, since that means that people find it helpful. Behind the lessons there are bits of historical and political analysis which, alas, are timely. On Tyranny is there as a vehicle for the knowledge about resistance that I tried to assemble from others wiser than me.
But you are always welcome to just take the lessons and pass them on -- for free, any time. For a simple shareable card of just the twenty lessons, look here.
If you would like to share free On Tyranny resources on social media, here are messages you can forward (or adapt) on Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook, and Twitter. On Tyranny is also used as a resource for educators; you can find out more about that here.
I hope you find these useful! I’ll be looking for them!
Best
TS
PS: June 14th is No Kings Day. Protest. Millions will in hundreds of places, and I will be one them. (Lesson 13, Corporeal Politics).
Ik heb zin in de toekomst! Dus schrijf ik bij #Volt aan landelijke plannen die werken.
"Verzet begint met een definitie van hoe de dingen zouden kunnen zijn."
Dat las ik vanochtend in "Over Vrijheid" van #TimothySnyder, op p115.
En hoe dingen zouden kunnen zijn, dat schrijven we in ons verkiezingsprogramma.
Durf jij te zeggen waar je vóór bent? Sluit je dan aan bij Volt, en denk mee over dat verkiezingsprogramma.
3 maanden. Go!
Ik kijk uit naar de samenwerking :-)
"Über Tyrannei - zwanzig Lektionen für den Widerstand"
Ein kluges Buch 📔 von Timothy Snyder, Prof. für osteuropäische Geschichte, Yale University, kürzlich aus USA nach Toronto ausgewandert, aus Gründen.
#timothysnyder #faschismus #Demokratieverteidigen
100 days of #Trump, with daily updates from @locuta: https://reportersonline.eu/all-of-trumps-decisions-and-their-impact/
I read most of them, but now I want to read about change. I started following the #FightingOligarchy tour with #BernieSanders and #AOC. I just watched
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBgl7n10CS0.
Book tip: #OnFreedom by #TimothySnyder.
Then: don't only read about change.
I'm organising more events for #Volt in my region and with our European digital affairs community, #VoltDigiCom.
Join a political party and be part of the change!
I have finished Timothy Snyder’s book On Freedom. I was moved repeatedly while reading, and as I put it down, I had to sit for several minutes. Here are my notes from the book. Quotations are taken directly. Anything outside of quotations are my own thoughts or paraphrasing of Snyder’s words.
“Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good.”
What a simple statement but one that nevertheless needs to be made. It’s part of certain individuals’ and groups’ MO to make us cynical so that we give up hope. But if we value freedom – as so many of us purport to do – we must strive towards being open to, nurturing, and valuing the good.
The book argues that five factors are needed for freedom:
“The five forms are: sovereignty, or the learned capacity to make choices; unpredictability, the power to adapt physical regularities …
I have finished Timothy Snyder’s book On Freedom. I was moved repeatedly while reading, and as I put it down, I had to sit for several minutes. Here are my notes from the book. Quotations are taken directly. Anything outside of quotations are my own thoughts or paraphrasing of Snyder’s words.
“Freedom is not just an absence of evil but a presence of good.”
What a simple statement but one that nevertheless needs to be made. It’s part of certain individuals’ and groups’ MO to make us cynical so that we give up hope. But if we value freedom – as so many of us purport to do – we must strive towards being open to, nurturing, and valuing the good.
The book argues that five factors are needed for freedom:
“The five forms are: sovereignty, or the learned capacity to make choices; unpredictability, the power to adapt physical regularities to personal purposes; mobility, the capacity to move through space and time following values; factuality, the grip on the world that allows us to change it; and solidarity, the recognition that freedom is for everyone.”
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#StateTerror
A brief guide for Americans
Yesterday the president defied a #SCOTUS ruling to return a man who was mistakenly sent to a gulag in another country, celebrated the suffering of this innocent person, & spoke of sending Americans to foreign #ConcentrationCamps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, & it has to be identified as such to be stopped.
#law #Trump #tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship
https://snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
https://www.europesays.com/de/9717/ Lesetipps – Fußball, Liebe und Lektionen für den Widerstand #Books #Bücher #ChristophKramer #Deutschland #Entertainment #Germany #Lesetipps #TimothySnyder #Unterhaltung
I was just reading #TimothySnyder 's "On Tyranny" and he starts with a quote by Leszek Kolakowski.
I will use it tomorrow at my talk during our local #standupforscience event in Nancy.
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On #Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
#authoritarianism #TimothySnyder #OnTyranny #audio #books
https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow
Today's my birthday, my 75th—impossibly old!—and I'm receiving this wonderful video of John Lithgow reading Timothy Snyder's twenty lessons in tyranny as a birthday gift. Which I now offer to readers here….
#tyranny #authoritarianism #dictatorship #Trump #Musk #Republicans #TimothySnyder
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https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow
#TimothySnyder on #JDVance's trip to #Greenland: "nothing was experienced, nothing was learned, nothing sensible was said. Vance, who never left the base, and has never before visited Greenland, was quite sure how Greenlanders should live. He made a political appeal to Greenlanders, none of whom was present, or anywhere near him. He claimed that Denmark was not protecting the security of Greenlanders in the Arctic, and that the United States would."
“historian Timothy Snyder [taught] a course at Yale University called The Making of Modern Ukraine. And he’s generously making the lectures available on YouTube–so that you can follow along too. All of the currently-available lectures appear above… A syllabus for the course can be found here.”
These are excellent. They were posted a couple of years ago, just as relevant today. I have’t watched all yet but will.
OMG
#TimothySnyder left the country for #Canada
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley, along with Yale history professors Marci Shore & her husband Timothy Snyder, are taking their teaching to the University of Toronto to advocate for #democracy, speak out against #fascism & teach without fear of #academic capitulation to the #Trump White House, they say.
#tyranny #authoritarianism #autocracy #ThoughtPolice #dissent #FreeSpeech #FreedomOfAssembly
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/yale-university-scholars-toronto-trump/index.html
