The Importance of Challenges to American Power

Adam Tooze returns to PTO to discuss the key causal factors that allowed fascism to emerge in the early twentieth century and whether conditions that would enable fascism on the interwar model exist today. We also talked about whether describing the Bolsanaros, the Le Pens and the Orbans of this world as fascist may be analytically wrong but tactically effective, and about how close the Latin American dictatorships of the 1970s and 80s are to the fascist model. Links: Adam's chartbook post: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-166-19222022-the-centenary Eurotrash podcast episode: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ep-6-sex-fascism-73970252 Adam on The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy: https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/adam-tooze-on-nazi-ideology-and-the-german-war-economy Adam on Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy: https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/adam-tooze-on-shutdown-how-covid-shook-the-worlds-economy Part one and two of Adam on Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World: https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/20-adam-tooze-on-crashed-how-a-decade-of-financial-crises-changed-the-world https://soundcloud.com/poltheoryother/23-adam-tooze-on-crashed-how-a-decade-of-financial-crises-changed-the-world-part-2