What would a second American civil war look like?

You’d need a theory of fascism and capitalist crisis to understand

Paul Mason
12 min readSep 6, 2022

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Imagine the American Civil War had never happened: would the world be better or worse? That’s the question I kept asking myself as I read Barbara Walter’s book How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them.

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Paul Mason
HOW TO STOP FASCISM

Journalist, writer and film-maker. Author of How To Stop Fascism.