ABSTRACT

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

chapter |23 pages

The origins and persistence of the far-right

Capital, class and the pathologies of liberal politics

chapter |20 pages

Mass hysteria or a class act?

Premonitions of fascism between Marxism and liberalism

chapter |21 pages

Reaction and adaptation in the longue durée

The far-right, international politics and the state in historical perspective

chapter |20 pages

The far-right and neoliberalism

Willing partner or hegemonic opponent?

chapter |24 pages

Hegemony and the far-right

Policing dissent in imperial America 1