Full Description
This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an original analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing literature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective. The approach offered here is that of 'longue durée' analysis, whereby the far-right is understood as an evolving subject of capitalist modernity. The authors argue that an assessment of the contemporary characteristics of the far-right needs to consider the ways in which it is a product of deeper and longer-term structures of socio-economic and political development, than, for example, the inter-war crises of capitalism. The book aims to provide a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the history of the far-right that centres on the international as key to any understanding its evolution, and which distinguishes between the fascist and non-fascist variants as an essential precondition for comprehending the far-right presence in contemporary politics
Contents
1. The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An Introduction - Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson and Adam Fabry, 2. The Origins and Persistence of the Far-Right: Capital, Class and the Pathologies of Liberal Politics - Richard Saull, 3. Mass Hysteria or a Class Act? Premonitions of Fascism between Marxism and Liberalism - Ishay Landa, 4. Hegemonic Transition, War and Opportunities for Fascist Militarism - Şefika Kumral, 5. Reaction and Adaptation in the Longue Durée: The Far-Right, International Politics and the State in Historical Perspective - Angelos-Stylianos Chryssogelos, 6. Passato e Presente? Gramscis' Analysis of Fascism and the Far-Right - Nicola Short, 7. The Far-Right and 'the Needs of Capital' - Neil Davidson, 8. The Far Right and Neoliberalism: Willing Partner or Hegemonic Opponent? - Owen Worth, 9. Poland's Recombinant Far-Right Populism and the Reconfiguration of Post-Communist Neoliberalisation - Stuart Shields, 10. Hegemony and the Far Right: Policing Dissent in Imperial America - Mark Rupert
