Fascism

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Fascism é um livro editado pelo teórico político Roger Griffin. Foi publicado pela Oxford University Press em 1995 como um livro de bolso de 410 páginas. É um leitor na série Oxford Readers, que reúne os escritos de vários autores sobre o tema do fascismo e da extrema-direita. Serve como um livro fonte em inglês para introduzir os leitores ao antiliberalismo pré-fascista, ao fascismo de entreguerras na Itália e na Alemanha, bem como às variantes internacionais associadas do fascismo da Argentina ao Japão. Description Griffin tenta fazer um levantamento abrangente da direita antiliberal ao longo do século XX, incluindo temas tão diversos quanto o ecologismo radical, o neopaganismo, o ultranacionalismo e o racismo fanático. Os autores incluem uma mistura eclética de filósofos, políticos, poetas, agitadores e críticos sociais, que vão desde os poetas-scholars pessimistas e relativamente benignos da Alemanha de Weimar (como Stefan George, Ernst Jünger e Martin Heidegger) até a retórica de figuras como Heinrich Himmler e o supremacista branco americano William Pierce. Griffin examina principalmente o Fascismo italiano de entreguerras e o Nazismo alemão, com análises políticas e historiográficas de liberais, marxistas e conservadores contemporâneos e pós-guerra. Há 214 seleções no livro, a maioria delas de antes de 1945. Cerca de metade delas são da Itália e da Alemanha, além de uma seção sobre "fascismos abortivos" com escritos da Grã-Bretanha, Espanha, França e vários outros países da Europa, África e América do Sul. Uma seção é dedicada a "teorias do fascismo", e o livro conclui com uma coletânea de escritos pós-guerra. References

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Notable quotes

“In spite of Bolshevism's and fascism's different attitudes, above all, private property and nationalism, both fascists and antifascists acknowledged common sources and resulting similarities between Bolshevism and fascism, including their revolutionary ideology, their elitism, their disdain for bourgeois values, and their totalitarian ambitions.”
— Cyprian P. Blamires, editor, World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Santa Barbara: CA, ABC-CLIO, Inc. (2006) p.p. 95-96.
“The Fascist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide; he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, life which should be high and full, lived for oneself, but not above all for others — those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after.”
— Giovanni Gentile in The Doctrine of Fascism, signed and approved by Benito Mussolini in 1932; sometimes misattributed to Mussolini.
“If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth, then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity. From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, we Fascists conclude that we have the right to create our own ideology and to enforce it with all the energy of which we are capable.”
— Benito Mussolini, in "Diuturna" ["The Lasting"] (1921)
“The Fascist and Syndicalist species were characterized by the first appearance of a type of man who "did not care to give reasons or even to be right", but who was simply resolved to impose his opinions. That was the novelty: the right not to be right, not to be reasonable: "the reason of unreason."”
— José Ortega y Gasset, The Revolt of the Masses (1930) as edited by Kerrigan, Anthony; Moore, Kenneth, University of Notre Dame Press (1985), p. 62.
“Fascism is the falsehood that the enemy chosen by a leader must be the enemy for all. Politics then begins from emotion and falsehood. Peace becomes unthinkable, since enmity abroad is necessary for control at home. A fascist says "the people" and means "some people," those he favors at the moment.”
— Timothy Snyder, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2018) pp. 278–279.
“This means that if someone acts like a fascist, has fascist beliefs, repeats fascist talking points, and hangs out with other fascists, the fact that they publicly denounce fascism should be worth absolutely nothing to you, and shouldn’t even enter into your consideration of whether they’re a fascist. After all, “I’m not a fascist” is exactly what a fascist would say.”
— Natalie Wynn, Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to Recognize a F@scist, (1 September 2017)

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