The Fascism Reader

by Kallis; Aristotle A.

• ISBN13: 9780415243599
• ISBN10: 0415243599
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2002-12-23
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Fascism Readeris a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to the complex nature, limits, aspects and dynamics of Fascism as both ideology and practice. The book draws together classic and recent interpretations to trace the development of generic fascism. Exploring fascism in all its manifestations, this book discusses notorious examples such as Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy and Franco's Spain, as well as less familiar regimes including Horthy in Hungary, Salazar's dictatorship in Portugal and the British Union of Fascists. It also examines the intellectual and ideological dimensions of fascism and the impact of fascism on society-from anti-Semitism to fascist attitudes to women.

Table of Contents

Introduction: fascism in historiography

Generic fascism: the search for definitions and explanations

Fascism - a 'generic' concept?

Generic fascism: an 'illusion'?

Fascism and the capitalist system: a Marxist view

Fascism as 'latecomer': an ideal type with negations

A 'spectral-syncretic' approach to fascism

Fascism as a 'generic' concept

Fascism and its evolution 'in time': five stages

What produces fascism?

An interwar Marxist analysis of fascism: Togliatti and Italian Communism

Fascism as 'extremism of the middle class'

The collapse of the 'bourgeois equilibrium' of the 1920s and the rise of fascism

Fascism as the product of 'crisis'

Pre-condition for fascism's success

Fascist movements: ideology and variations

Fascist ideology - the quest for the 'fascist minimum'

The 'era of fascism' and the uniqueness of fascist ideology

Five main tenets of fascist ideology

Fascist ideology: a dissident revision of Marxism?

Fascism: 'rebirth' and 'ultra-nationalism'

The ideal type of fascism: a 'retrodictive theory'

Varieties of fascist movements

Romania: the 'Iron Guard'

Hungary: Horthy, Gombos and the 'Arrow Cross'

Austria: 'Heimwehr', 'NSDAP' and the 'Christian Social' State

Spain: the 'Falange'

France: the 'second wave' of fascism in the 1930s

Britain: the 'British Union of Fascists'

The 'regime-model' of fascism

Techniques of fascist rule - the exercise of power by the 'regime-model' of fascism

'Totalitarian dictatorship' and fascism

'Behmouth': Nazism as 'stateless' system

Nazi state and neo-feudalism

Devices of the 'fascist consensus': party and mass organisations in fascist Italy

Coercion and terror: the Gestapo in the Nazi system

Charismatic leadership: the 'cult' of

Fascist regime and territorial expansion: Italy and Germany

Salazar's Estudo Novo: the nature of a 'para-fascist' regime

Fascism and anti-Semitism

German anti-Semitic tradition, National Socialist regime and 'ordinary Germans'

The 'uniqueness' of Nazi racialism

Partners in genocide? Anti-Semitism and the Axis alliance

Racism, fascism and nationalism

Italian Fascism and racism

Anti-Semitism in

Societal attitudes to fascism: support, conformity, opposition and resistance

Society and attitudes to fascism - support, conformity and resistance

Italian Fascism as a 'generational phenomenon

Fascism and working class: workers under Italian

Fascism and the crisis of modernity: NSDAP members and supporters

Fascism and gender: women under national socialism

Vichy France: resistance and collaboration in the Nazi New Order

Spain in the 1930s: a divided society and the coming of the civil war

Fascism and social elites - complicity and a

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