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Genealogies and Geographies of Anti-Democracy in the European Crisis of the 1930s

Fascisms, Corporativisms, Laburisms

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  • Laura Cerasi - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia - email orcid profile

Abstract
The European responses to the inter-war years crisis were marked by the emergence of fascist and corporatist movements and regimes, combined with the creation of cultural and political networks of the radical right. Their ability to express ultra-nationalist, organicistic, palingenetic communitarian trends, radically hostile to socialist egalitarianism and liberal individualism, aiming at a national, hierarchical, collective new order, posed the ultimate authoritarian threat to European democracy. This book investigates cultural genealogies as well a as national and transnational geographies of such regimes, movements and cultures: for their transversal political nature, they provide a privileged ground for new perspectives in the inter-war crisis of Western culture, and for questioning their legacies to postwar world.

Keywords First World War • Corporatism • Gino Borgatta • Politics • Liberalism • Interwar Associations • Economic protectionism • State control • Corporation • Europe • Inter-war Europe • Democracy • Francoism • Governance • Pan-Latinism • Far-right movement • NSDAP • Università Cattolica • Luigi Einaudi • Giuseppe Bottai • Propaganda • Workers • Literature • Economics • Nationalism • Origins of capitalism • Autarchy • Global crisis • European Union • Interwar • National Socialism • Right wing intellectuals • Arbeiterliteratur • Transnational history • Labour • Amintore Fanfani • Empire • Social origins • Associations • Interwar period • Corneliu Zelea Codreanu • Protectionism • Populism • Inter-war period • Spain • Corporativism • Free trade • Dictatorship • Iron Guard • Critica fascista • Universal Fascism • Violence • Latinity • Romania • Agostino Lanzillo • Capital • Anti-western modernity • Gino Arias • Fascism • International Corporations • Counter-democracy

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-317-5 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-317-5 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-318-2 | Number of pages 294 | Dimensions 16x23cm | Published May 31, 2019 | Language it, en

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