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041 _aENG
082 _a320.533
_bPOU
100 _aPoulantzas, Nicos
245 0 _aFascism and dictatorship: the third international and the problem of fascism.
_cNicos Poulantzas foreword by Dylan Riley ; translated from the French by Judith White ; translation editors, Jennifer and Timothy O'Hagan.
260 _aLondon
_bVerso
_c1974
300 _a366p
_c23 cm,
504 _aIncludes index
505 _aMachine generated contents note: pt. ONE THE PERIOD OF FASCISM -- 1.Imperialism and Fascism. Monopoly Capitalism and the Imperialist Chain -- 2.The German and Italian Links of the Chain -- I.Germany -- II.Italy -- 3.The Period of Fascism and the Third International -- I.The Comintern's general view and its changes of course: the problem of the period and steps in the class struggle -- II.Immediate effects on the Comintern's analysis of fascism -- 4.Conclusion: the Transition to Monopoly Capitalism, and 'Economic Crisis' -- pt. TWO FASCISM AND-THE CLASS STRUGGLE -- 1.The Political Crisis: Fascism and the Exceptional State -- I.The problem and the Comintern -- II.Thalheimer, Gramsci, Trotsky -- III.The analytical framework: political crisis, class struggle and the institutional system -- 2.The Growth of Fascism -- pt. THREE FASCISM AND THE DOMINANT CLASSES -- 1.General Propositions -- I.Contradictions between dominant classes and dominant fractions of classes --
520 _aThe resurgence of the far right across Europe and the emergence of the alt-right in the US have put the question of fascism urgently back on the agenda. For those trying to understand these forms of politics, there is no better place to start than Fascism and Dictatorship, the unrivalled Marxist study of German and Italian fascism. It carefully distinguishes between fascism as a mass movement before the seizure of power and what it becomes as an entrenched machinery of dictatorship. It compares the distinct class components of the counter revolutionary blocs mobilised by fascism in Germany and Italy; analyses the changing relations between the petty bourgeoisie and big capital in the evolution of fascism; discusses the structures of the fascist state itself, as an emergency regime for the defence of capital; and provides a sustained and documented criticism of official Comintern attitudes and policies towards fascism in the fateful years after the Versailles settlement. Fascism and Dictatorship represents a challenging synthesis of factual evidence and conceptual analysis, a standard bearer of what Marxist political theory should be.
650 _aFascism.
700 _aRiley, Dylan J.
700 _a White, Judith
700 _a O'Hagan, Judith
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