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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
How do you recognize fascism?

• The content Fascist Ideology?
• The action Fascist Practice?
• A historical approach What was Fascism?
• Fascist Movements and Fascist States

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Movements I Italy

• World War One and the first Italian Fascists
• The Biennio Rosso Social Crisis and the Rise of
  Fascism
• The Fascist March on Rome, October 1922

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Movements II Germany

• The Post-War Crisis and the emergence of Nazism
  (NSDAP National Socialist German Workers Party)
• The Rise of Nazism at the End of the Weimar
  Republic
• The Nazi take-over of power, January 1933

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascism and Crisis

• The First Wave Fascism and the
  Post-World-War-One Crisis
• The Second Wave Fascism and the Great
  Depression
• Crisis Instability and Opportunities

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Regimes

• Fascist Dictatorships? The Leadership Principle
• Forming a National Community, from above and from
  below
• Anti-Semitism and Racism
• The Regime as a Movement Constant Mobilization

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascism and War

• Fascist Imperialism (Ethiopia, Mediterranean) and
  Nazi Expansion in the East (Space for Living)
• The Enslavement of the Slavic Population
• The Murder of European Jewry

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Ideology

• Anti-isms Anti-Marxism, anti-liberalism,
  anti-Semitism, etc.
• The Fascist vision of a new society a purified
  and rejuvenated nation that would overcome class
  struggle
• Visions of heroic individualism
• Anti-rationalism and the belief in myths

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascist Practice

• Central role of violence, above all against their
  opponents (Communists, Socialists, Jews)
• Violence as a means to create a (masculine)
  community
• Ideology and Practice The glorification of
  violence and the fascist will to action

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Radical Politics Lecture 6 International Fascism
Fascism and Youth

• Fascism as a youth movement?
• Youth and its ability to build a new society
  played a key role in Fascist ideology.
• A generation of fascists? Many fascists,
  especially Nazis in Germany, had been too young
  to fight in World War One. They longed to become
  heroes and to create something radically new.