Why Fascism is on the Rise in France is an audacious, urgent, precise and often terrifying intervention. Shaking off the encrustations of orthodoxy, the greasy equivocations of mainstream anti-populism, and the crudely polemical or creakily mechanistic conceptions of fascism inherited from parts of the Marxist tradition, Palheta restores rigour to antifascist thought. In underscoring 'fascisation' as a process immanent to hegemonic collapse and democratic decay, he renews Marxist theory and gives us a practical orientation in the battles to come. This is essential reading for everyone in the crosshairs of the new fascism, and everyone who wants to fight back. -- Richard Seymour, author of Disaster Nationalism Palheta's book is a rigorous and illuminating guide into the laboratories of the French Far Right and into the socio-economic conjuncture that has boosted the fortunes of fascism. Efforts to understand the trajectories and possibilities of fascism will gain much from engaging with his work and testing the framework he has forged to study and counter new forms of authoritarianism and reaction in France and beyond. -- Alberto Toscano
