Politics Theory Other

Fascist echoes w/ Adam Tooze

Mar 16, 2023
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Framing Conditions for Fascism

  • Adam Tooze argues that understanding fascism requires considering three conditions: total war, class war threat, and Anglo-American hegemony's rise.
  • He believes these shaped fascism's development into mass movements capable of seizing state power.
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Mussolini's Early Collaboration

  • Early fascist Italy, under Mussolini, saw collaboration with American capital, seemingly contradicting its anti-hegemony stance.
  • Tooze suggests Mussolini's opposition was primarily to Wilsonian liberalism, not American finance, allowing for tactical alliances.
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Shifting Alliances and the Far-Right

  • Mussolini's shift from accommodating the US to outright conflict raises concerns about the contemporary far-right's potential for similar transformations.
  • While current far-right movements lack the ambition of classical fascism, changing circumstances could alter their trajectory.
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