Justin Gilmore

At Stanislaus since 2022, Dr. Gilmore's research brings together political theory, historical materialism, American political development, and social movement studies around questions of political power, resistance, and reaction. His current book project, tentatively entitled Latent Fascism: The Capitalist Origins of Reactionary Politics, develops a materialist political theory to understand how capitalist structures facilitate a persistent, latent fascist potentiality that can take many possible mature forms, including reactionary populisms that fall short of a clear-cut fascist identification. Justin teaches courses on ancient, early modern, and contemporary political theory; Marxism and class struggle; liberalism and conservatism; and the politics of fascism.