ABSTRACT
As has always been the case, during the immediate postwar years there was no single, homogeneous British far right. There were dozens of organisations, led by a multitude of varied characters with differing outlooks, priorities and methods. However, in the wake of World War II, almost all on the far-right and fascist fringe were concerned with national decline. Some proposals for national rejuvenation were genuinely grounded in serious philosophy with British fascists creating magpie ideologies that stole ideas and concepts from a range of thinkers such as Heidegger, Spengler, Nietzsche, Goethe and Schmitt. Mosley’s own thought was directed towards the future, the Union of Europe’. In both the prewar and postwar periods Mosley felt that the decline could be reversed through revolutionary new ideas, which fundamentally contradict Spengler’s conclusions. Mosley’s belief in decline and his proposed solution for its reversal had some striking parallels with the work of the influential German philosopher and sometime Nazi supporter Martin Heidegger.
