[SFPOM] Principles of Fascism and The People's Response II

Day 4,473, 16:41 • Published in USA USA • by Max Tse Tung


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(SFP Update) Principles of Fascism and The People's Response II




Today we will be discussing the characteristics of post-war fascism or what is commonly regarded as the phenomena of Neo-Fascism. This article should be a little bit denser than the last one and will include lots of different links so bear with me.









Neo-Fascism is an ultranationalist authoritarian populist set of movements that use xenophobia, nativism, and anti-immigrant ideas to gain power. They can usually be distinguished by their sympathy for their ideological roots, which come from Fascism.



It was distinguished from Fascism in 1942 after the Nazi invasion of the USSR according to Jean-Yves Camus (Political Scientist) and Nicolas Lebourg. (Historian and Far-Right Political Expert) What defined the change was the ideological shift to Euro-Nationalism and the abandonment of the theory of the racial-impurity of the “white race”. Euro-Nationalism was the idea that Europe should unify into a single nation and it was first popularized by Oswald Mosley of the British Union of Fascists, in his ‘Europe a Nation’ Policy.









Neo-Fascist and Post-Fascist Parties have existed across Europe since the 1940s. This is in part due to the fears of Communism and the Third World and their effects on the west. These days, Neo-Fascist groups are driven by a belief that the west needs to be protected from Islam and refugees. Neo-Fascists believe that they are defending western civilization and European heritage and culture.









Another characteristic of Neo-Fascism is its public and political rebranding of many of the ideas associated with Fascism and its retreat into a meta-political framework. Neo-Fascists are generally concerned with influencing how we interact with politics and our normative thoughts towards it. For example, they have abandoned the idea of recreating previous regimes and will use the popular culture and attitudes of their time to advance the Neo-Fascist movement. They also are more willing to work with democratic governments and institutions, unlike their political ancestors who were usually more revolutionary-minded. This is because they see the political value of support from other parties to save face and to gain power.







In the 80s and 90s Europe experienced multiple economic crises this combined with high unemployment rates, a resurfacing of nationalism, and an increase in ethnic conflict has lead, numerous political scientists and historians to compare the period to pre-World War II Europe. They believe that the resurgence of Neo-Fascist movements is in part due to these conditions. The groups from this period were not exclusively pan-European, they were country-specific but shared many common characteristics with other Neo-Fascist groups.

There is a dispute over distinguishing the more recent Neo-Fascist movements from that of the ones created just after the second world war. The dispute is centered on the idea that recent Neo-Fascist movements operate democratically as opposed to their political-ancestor movements. Some scholars contend that this distinction is relatively meaningless and cite the various ways in which past movements co-opted and used the democratic system.






I want to hear from my readers on this, what aspects of Fascism do you think should be covered in this series? Let me know!


~Chairman Max Planck~