Work Camps, Commerce, and the Education of the 'New Man' in the Romanian Legionary Movement [PDF]
This article explores two aspects of the Romanian legionary movement's organization in the 1930s, namely work camps and commerce. These are placed in the context of the Legion's attempts to construct a ‘parallel society’ that challenged the hegemony of ...
Haynes, R
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‘This Is Not Europe’: Investigating the Commission's Anti‐Populist Articulation of ‘European Values’
Abstract Whilst ‘populism’ is often considered antithetical to ‘European values’, how this contrast shapes the very meaning of such ‘values’ remains underexplored. This article investigates the European Commission's anti‐populist articulation of ‘European values’, which constructs ‘populism’ as their constitutive outside.
Alex Yates
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From Populism to Fascism? On Our Present‐Time Political Categories
ABSTRACT With the global rise of far‐right governments, two categories are available to describe this aspect of our current times: populism and fascism. This raises a twofold question: analytically, which is the most accurate to describe these authoritarian governments?
Federico Tarragoni
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7. Modern Totalitarianism: Russian Communism
Some political analysts place fascism at the extreme right of the political spectrum, Communism at or near the extreme left. This classification has been much favored by Marxist writers who believe that fascism is the last desperate effort of embattled ...
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Towards a critique of anti-German 'communism' [PDF]
The spectre of anti-Germans has easily become the Feindbild for activists of the Anglophone Left; yet rarely does this translate into fundamental or informed criticism of the anti-German premise. This article, then, offers an introductory description and
Schlembach, Raphael
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Getting the right right: Redefining the centre-right in post-communist Europe [PDF]
Existing literature on the centre-right in Eastern and Central Europe is small and fragmentary, in contrast with the voluminous, detailed and often sophisticated comparative literatures on the Left and the Far Right in the region.
Hanley, S
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Polanyi on crisis: The United States, fascism and ecological break‐down
Abstract This article uses Karl Polanyi's understanding of the crisis inherent in liberal economics to analyse a contemporary crisis—Trump's global tariff agenda. It argues that Trump's tariff agenda conforms to Polanyi's interpretation of how the crisis of liberal economics can disintegrate into more malignant forces.
ROWAN ALCOCK
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Lessons from History: The Startling Rise to Power of Benito Mussolini [PDF]
Rome-based scholar Emilio Iodice examines the circumstances that precipitated the rise of dictator Benito Mussolini in 1920s’ Italy – xenophobia, cultural bigotry, harsh governing measures, a condemned media – and draws the conclusion that some of those ...
Iodice, Emilio F
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Cottage Economy or Collective Farm? English Socialism and Agriculture Between Merrie England and the Five-Year Plan [PDF]
The cottage economy and the collective farm are two alternative models of socialist agriculture that relate broadly to the traditions of Romantic and utilitarian socialism and embody diametrically opposed attitudes to food and its production.
Taunton, Matthew
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Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy
Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
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