Fascism as a Mass Movement is an essay about the origins and growth of
fascism, not fascism in power. [. . .] Finally, even if fascism today
is not and will not be the return of old-style fascism but more eclectic
and variegated versions of extreme-Right politics, Rosenberg’s essay
loses none of its relevance for us. In particular, the increasing
support drawn from the working class by parties of the extreme Right in
countries such as France, Austria, Denmark and Norway, or the ability of
the Sangh Parivar in India (the RSS/BJP combine) to create
mass-mobilisations based on hate-campaigns and strategies of tension
should be some of the more pressing reasons why the Left needs to return
to the issue of fascism in a central way.
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