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  Fascism’s Global Spread is Real — As Real as the Spread of COVID-19

  5 May 2021, by BELLO Walden

  In the world’s largest democracies, far-right movements that embrace violence, reject democracy, and target the vulnerable are on the rise.
  For purposes of academic analysis, it might be legitimate to distinguish between a “fascist-leaning” movement and a truly fascist one, or a far-right regime (...)

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  Fascist or not? The left cannot combat the far right if it fails to understand it

  28 January 2020, by HAYWARD Freddie

  To caricature all on the right as “fascists” is lazy and counterproductive.
  Last year, I witnessed a rally protesting Steve Bannon’s appearance at Oxford Union. The crowd chanted: “Nazi scum, off our streets”; a chant that has been echoed at other demonstrations. In the US, “No Trump! No KKK! No (...)

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  Marxism, the Far-Right and the Antinomies of Liberalism: An interview with Enzo Traverso

  5 April 2019, by SOUVLIS George, TRAVERSO Enzo

  George Souvlis interviews Enzo Traverso on the emergence of far-right movements across the European continent, drawing on Traverso’s extensive body of work since the 1990s.
  This interview originally appeared in Práticas da História.
  1) By way of introduction, could you explain what personal (...)

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  To understand the far right, look to their bookshelves

  1 April 2019, by SHAFAK Elif

  From Jordan Peterson to Thilo Sarrazin, rightwing writers are bringing once fringe ideas into the mainstream.
  I used to live in Tucson, teaching at the University of Arizona. The post-9/11 US, just half an hour away from the Mexican border, was a strange place to be. Armed vigilantes patrolled (...)

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  Fascisms Old and New – What does fascism mean in the twenty-first century?

  4 February 2019, by ALLEN Nicolas , CORTES Martín, TRAVERSO Enzo

  The rise of Bolsanaro in Brazil, Trump in the US, and the far right throughout Europe has the word “fascism” on everyone’s lips. But that rising Right is distinct from twentieth-century fascism in key ways.
  France, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Austria, even onetime outliers like Spain and Germany — (...)

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  Seen from the Philippines: The making of a fascist mindset

  30 December 2018, by DAVID Randy

  In highly unequal societies like ours—where wide disparities in social circumstances at birth determine a person’s access to food, shelter, and healthcare, a good education, a rich and diverse cultural heritage, influential connections, and a successful career—it is common to encounter the belief (...)

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  Fascism and the far right; twenty years on

  26 August 2017, by RENTON David

  Let me start with the origins of my book Fascism: Theory and Practice. I will then set out – using a deliberately old-fashioned, Marxist term – what my perspective would be if I was to think today about the same questions now.
  “Saranson [had] thin flaxen hair … His eyes were sparks at the bottom (...)