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A fascinating graphic guide to the political movements and philosophical roots of fascism, tracing the origins of its ideas to nineteenth-century traditions.
Stuart Hood is a WWII POW escapee and subsequent expert and BBC film maker.
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Published by Icon Books Ltd, Omnibus Business Centre, 3941 North Road, London N7 9DP
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ISBN: 978-178578-007-3
Text copyright 2012 Icon Books Ltd
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Originating editor: Richard Appignanesi
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NOT COMPLETELY. THE SPANISH DICTATORSHIP OF GENERAL FRANCO LASTED TILL 1975.
OF COURSE ITS OVER! WE FINISHED IT OFF IN 1945.
OVER? THATS NOT WHAT I SEE IN THE STREETS.
Many people believe that Fascism ceased to be of any real political importance after 1945. Towards the end of the 20th century, however, Fascist parties were emerging, active and growing. Can we be sure that in the 21st century, Fascism will really be a thing of the past?
Fascist has become an all-purpose word. We often use it to describe people and things we dislike. It is applied indiscriminately to figures in authority, to modes of behaviour, to ways of thinking, to kinds of architecture.
SEXUAL LIBERATION ENDS UP WITH AIDS!
EVERY SOCIALIST OUGHT TO BE SHOT!
EDUCATION IS IN A MESS. TOO LIBERAL. NO DISCPLINE ANYMORE!
What Fascists have in common is that they are the enemies of liberal or left-wing thought and attitudes. They can be seen as threatening, aggressive, repressive, narrowly conservative and blindly patriotic.
MODERN ART IS ALL CRAP!
IM NO FASCIST - BUT I SEE TOO MANY DAMN BLACK AND ASIAN IMMIGRANTS IN THIS COUNTRY!
I HATE COPPERS - THEYRE ALL FASCISTS!
But this catch-all use of the word raises obvious questions. Are all people who could be defined in these terms really Fascists? Are all right-wing parties or groups, all conservative right-wing governments, necessarily Fascist?
Italy was the first country to have a party that called itself Fascist. The Italian word fascio (pronounced fasho) means a bundle-of firewood, for instance. It was first used in the 1890s by workers in the notorious Sicilian sulphur mines.
FASCIO - SOMETHING DIFFICULT TO BREAK IF IT KEEPS TOGETHER
A UNION IN OTHER WORDS.
WE HIJACKED THE WORD FROM THE LEFT - LIKE SO MUCH ELSE!
In Italy after World War I the name was taken over by right-wing nationalistic groups who formed fasci di combattimento (combat squads). They came together in 1922 to found the first Fascist Party.
Some people argue that strictly speaking Fascist means a member of this Italian Fascist Party or of any similar parties that sprang up in Europe between WWI and the Allied victory in 1945.
The examples shown are incomplete. Many of these parties drew on political traditions stretching back to the 19th century.
The intellectual traditions behind Fascism are ultraconservative.
OUR IDEAL IS TO ACHIEVE THE SUPERMAN BY COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENTS IN DISCIPLINE AND BREEDING.
OUR BOTTOM-LINE IS THE FREE PLAY OF MARKET FORCES WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION.
THE ORGANIZED MINORITY WILL ALWAYS TRIUMPH OVER A DISORGANIZED MAJORITY.
The Italian sociologists Mosca and Pareto were in some respects old-fashioned exponents of laissez-faire economics, but they also believed democracy was a dream and stressed the superiority of elites in society.
Besides being anti-democratic, ultraconservative thinkers were virulently opposed to socialism which was steadily developing in the 1880s. Socialism had its roots in the 18th century intellectual movement of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
WE REJECT SOCIALISMS ANALYSIS OF THE CLASS NATURE OF SOCIETY!
Socialisms remedies to injustices and oppression, its opposition to war and its internationalism, were condemned as materialist, unpatriotic and weak.
RACES WHICH RETAIN THEIR PURITY ARE SUPERIOR TO OTHERS. BEST OF ALL IS THE ARYAN RACE.
I FIRST COINED THE TERM ANTI-SEMITISM AND SPOKE OF RACIAL CONFLICT. JEWISH ASSIMILATION MUST BE REJECTED AS DANGEROUS!
OF COURSE, WE GERMANS BELONG TO THE PURE ARYAN RACE!
ON OUR VISIST TO NUREMBERG IN JULY 1877, WE WERE VERY DISTURBED BY THE INSOLENTLY OSTENTATIOUS SYNAGOGUE IN THE HANS-SACHS-PLATZ.
MY GOAL IS TO PRESERVE SACRED GERMAN ART FROM A FALSE AILEN POWER - THE JEWS!
AND I BUILT UP MY RELIGION ON WAGNERS OPERAS!
Ultraconservatives in France were fiercely patriotic, anti-republican and nostalgic for past glories. An example was Charles Maurras (1868-1952), the Catholic, monarchist and anti-Semite who hated Freemasons, Protestants and foreigners resident in France.
DEMOCRACY IS ANARCHY! IT IS FEMININE, WEAK, EVIL.
I AGREE. THIS REPUBLIC IS DOMINATED BY JEWS. BUT WE MUST DO MORE THAN WRITE ABOUT IT. WE MUST GET TO THE PEOPLE IN THE STREETS!
Edouard Drumont (1844-1917) writer of a notorious racist book, La France Juive (Jewish France). published in 1886. He also edited a popular anti-Semitic daily, La Libre Parole.
Wagner and other intellectuals in Germany had made anti-Semitic nationalism fashionable and respectable, at least on one level of high culture. But how could ultraconservatism occupy the popular level and capture the imagination of the nation as a whole?
Ultraconservatives like Maurras and Drumont were also looking for an excuse to transfer anti-Semitism from the academic level to the streets and strengthen the traditional Christian order of France.
Nostalgic monarchists, Catholics and the army with its reactionary caste-system were allied against the liberals of the Third Republic, third generation offspring of the 1789 French Revolution.
The ultraconservative allies sought to challenge and undermine the legacy of the Enlightenment and republicanism which enshrined the radical ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, and thereby re-establish traditional authority.
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