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August 03, 2012

Aurther Rosenberg's Fascism as a Mass Movement (Translation by J. Banaji)

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.
http://www.sacw.net/article2756.html