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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
How do you recognize fascism?
  • The content Fascist Ideology?
  • The action Fascist Practice?
  • A historical approach What was Fascism?
  • Fascist Movements and Fascist States

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Movements I Italy
  • World War One and the first Italian Fascists
  • The Biennio Rosso Social Crisis and the Rise of
    Fascism
  • The Fascist March on Rome, October 1922

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Movements II Germany
  • The Post-War Crisis and the emergence of Nazism
    (NSDAP National Socialist German Workers Party)
  • The Rise of Nazism at the End of the Weimar
    Republic
  • The Nazi take-over of power, January 1933

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascism and Crisis
  • The First Wave Fascism and the
    Post-World-War-One Crisis
  • The Second Wave Fascism and the Great
    Depression
  • Crisis Instability and Opportunities

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Regimes
  • Fascist Dictatorships? The Leadership Principle
  • Forming a National Community, from above and from
    below
  • Anti-Semitism and Racism
  • The Regime as a Movement Constant Mobilization

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascism and War
  • Fascist Imperialism (Ethiopia, Mediterranean) and
    Nazi Expansion in the East (Space for Living)
  • The Enslavement of the Slavic Population
  • The Murder of European Jewry

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Ideology
  • Anti-isms Anti-Marxism, anti-liberalism,
    anti-Semitism, etc.
  • The Fascist vision of a new society a purified
    and rejuvenated nation that would overcome class
    struggle
  • Visions of heroic individualism
  • Anti-rationalism and the belief in myths

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Practice
  • Central role of violence, above all against their
    opponents (Communists, Socialists, Jews)
  • Violence as a means to create a (masculine)
    community
  • Ideology and Practice The glorification of
    violence and the fascist will to action

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascism and Youth
  • Fascism as a youth movement?
  • Youth and its ability to build a new society
    played a key role in Fascist ideology.
  • A generation of fascists? Many fascists,
    especially Nazis in Germany, had been too young
    to fight in World War One. They longed to become
    heroes and to create something radically new.
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