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
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| The longue duree of the far-right: an introduction |
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1 The origins and persistence of the far-right: capital, class and the pathologies of liberal politics |
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2 Mass hysteria or a class act? Premonitions of fascism between Marxism and liberalism |
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3 Hegemonic transition, war and opportunities for fascist militarism |
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4 Reaction and adaptation in the longue duree: the far-right, international politics and the state in historical perspective |
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5 Passato E presente? Gramsci's analysis of fascism and the far-right |
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6 The far-right and 'the needs of capital' |
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7 The far-right and neoliberalism: willing partner or hegemonic opponent? |
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8 Poland's recombinant far-right populism and the reconfiguration of post-communist neoliberalisation |
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9 Hegemony and the far-right: policing dissent in imperial America |
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Richard Saull, Queen Mary, University of London, UK
Alexander Anievas, University of Cambridge, UK
Neil Davidson, University of Glasgow, UK
Adam Fabry, Brunel University, UK
