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The New Faces of Fascism

The New Faces of Fascism

Populism and the Far Right

by Enzo Traverso
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/01/2019

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What does Fascism mean at the beginning of the twenty-first century? When we pronounce this word, our memory goes back to the years between the two world wars and envisions a dark landscape of violence, dictatorships, and genocide. These images spontaneously surface in the face of the rise of radical right, racism, xenophobia, islamophobia and terrorism, the last of which is often depicted as a form of "Islamic fascism." Beyond some superficial analogies, however, all these contemporary tendencies reveal many differences from historical fascism, probably greater than their affinities. Paradoxically, the fear of terrorism nourishes the populist and racist rights, with Marine Le Pen in France or Donald Trump in the US claiming to be the most effective ramparts against "Jihadist fascism". But since fascism was a product of imperialism, can we define as fascist a terrorist movement whose main target is Western domination? Disentangling these contradictory threads, Enzo Traverso's historical gaze helps to decipher the enigmas of the present. He suggests the concept of post-fascism-a hybrid phenomenon, neither the reproduction of old fascism nor something completely different-to define a set of heterogeneous and transitional movements, suspended between an accomplished past still haunting our memories and an unknown future.
ISBN:
9781788730464
9781788730464
Category:
Fascism & Nazism
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-01-2019
Publisher:
Verso Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
208
Dimensions (mm):
210x140x21mm
Weight:
0.36kg

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