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1Radical 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.