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As was true of European fascism in the 1920s and 1930s, it is not easy to find much ideological coherence in these various political strands, let alone in Bannon’s Movement.
Some commentators today think that we are witnessing the second coming of fascism.
The rise of the far-right Danish People’s Party and Sweden Democrats, with their roots in Swedish fascism and their nostalgia for the mythic white Sweden of the 1950s, amounts to a devastating blow to the most perfect model of social democracy that Europe has ever produced.
In the face of the totalitarian challenges of fascism and communism in the twentieth century, Europe and the United States have become aware that the rule of law, separation of powers, and democracy decisively determine foreign policy and matter greatly from the point of view of international security.
Spain, for example, saw its best minds drained away for five centuries, notably following Fascism's victory in the Spanish Civil War.
Neither Communism, nor variations of fascism, or indeed radical nationalism, had much of a chance to develop in Europe under Pax Americana.
First came the apocalyptic collapse of fascism as Hitler took Germany with him into a collective suicide.
Fascism's demise was followed by the more gradual disintegration of communism after Stalin's death and Khrushchev's revelations of Stalin's crimes.
On the far right, Marine Le Pen’s National Front, the political heir of French fascism, won 18%, the party’s best result ever.
But his presidency is not a replay of twentieth-century fascism, as Yale historian Timothy Snyder and others have argued.
In The Anatomy of Fascism, Columbia University historian Robert O. Paxton writes that:“Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal constraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”
In a 1995 essay for The New York Review of Books, the novelist Umberto Eco, who was born during Italian fascism in 1932, defines fascism expansively as a “cult of tradition” based in “selective populism.”
The Forgotten Twentieth-CenturyBERLIN – It has been 20 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which for many historians marked the real end of the “short twentieth century” – a century that, beginning in 1914, was characterized by protracted ideological conflicts among communism, fascism, and liberal democracy, until the latter seemed to have emerged fully victorious.
In the twentieth century, Poland was the victim of two inhuman ideologies, fascism and Stalinism.
Last but not least, extremist political movements such as fascism and communism have been largely discredited.
Some blame Bismarck for Germany’s slide toward fascism in the twentieth century.
Are they not one with those who died fighting for the Spanish Republic in the 1930’s, who liberated Budapest in 1956 and ended fascism in Spain and Portugal in the 1970’s?
Part of the work of renewing Ukraine is a creative battle to put an end to a nightmarish century during which fascism and communism – ideologies born in the heart of Europe – battled for mastery.
Giorgio Bassani’s masterpiece, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, describes the lives of bourgeois Italian Jews under fascism.
The shambolic performance of elected parliaments in Europe, especially in interwar Germany and Italy, had a great deal to do with the rise of authoritarianism and fascism in the first half of the twentieth century.
To understand what this might mean for the evolution of European politics, consider the history of fascism.
Benito Mussolini, the founder of Italian fascism in 1919, started as a revolutionary socialist.
Initially, fascism was a nationalist, anti-capitalist movement.
European fascism collapsed with the defeat of Germany in 1945, but less aggressive forms lived on elsewhere, such as Argentina with its Peronism.
The social base of interwar fascism made it reasonable to see it as a party of the right.
The only political space left for fascism was the petit bourgeoisie: shopkeepers, small businessmen, and low-level civil servants.
After the rise of fascism and during the Cold War, the world’s democracies seemed to recognize that referendums and plebiscites are the handmaidens of autocrats seeking to concentrate power.
In the course of a few years, it had become the proud self-definition of Italian fascism, endorsed by Mussolini’s education minister, Giovanni Gentile, who became the official philosopher of fascism, and then incorporated in a ghost-written article by Mussolini himself in the Encyclopedia of Fascism.
And yet Fortuyn's demagogy was both different from and more insidious than the old fascism.
But China’s success story is also the most serious challenge that liberal democracy has faced since fascism in the 1930’s.
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