Fascism And Communism

Author : Franöois Furet,Ernst Nolte
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0803269145

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Fascism and Communism by Franöois Furet,Ernst Nolte Pdf

In his major work on communism, the international bestseller The Passing of an Illusion, the eminent French historian Franöois Furet devoted a lengthy footnote to German historian Ernst Nolte?s interpretation of fascism. Nolte responded, a correspondence ensued, and the result was the remarkable exchange presented in this volume. Fascism and Communism offers readers the rare opportunity to witness and learn from a confrontation between two of the world?s most distinguished historians over one of the most serious subjects of our time. Each from a different perspective, Furet and Nolte offer compelling arguments for the common genealogy of these two ideologies as well as reasons for the intellectual community?s rejection of this explosive thesis throughout the twentieth century. This discussion leads to a deeper understanding of the nature of totalitarianism as well as the trajectory and interpretation of modern European history.

Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520282209

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The Devil in History by Vladimir Tismaneanu Pdf

The Devil in History is a provocative analysis of the relationship between communism and fascism. Reflecting the author’s personal experiences within communist totalitarianism, this is a book about political passions, radicalism, utopian ideals, and their catastrophic consequences in the twentieth century’s experiments in social engineering. Vladimir Tismaneanu brilliantly compares communism and fascism as competing, sometimes overlapping, and occasionally strikingly similar systems of political totalitarianism. He examines the inherent ideological appeal of these radical, revolutionary political movements, the visions of salvation and revolution they pursued, the value and types of charisma of leaders within these political movements, the place of violence within these systems, and their legacies in contemporary politics. The author discusses thinkers who have shaped contemporary understanding of totalitarian movements—people such as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Albert Camus, François Furet, Tony Judt, Ian Kershaw, Leszek Kolakowski, Richard Pipes, and Robert C. Tucker. As much a theoretical analysis of the practical philosophies of Marxism-Leninism and Fascism as it is a political biography of particular figures, this book deals with the incarnation of diabolically nihilistic principles of human subjugation and conditioning in the name of presumably pure and purifying goals. Ultimately, the author claims that no ideological commitment, no matter how absorbing, should ever prevail over the sanctity of human life. He comes to the conclusion that no party, movement, or leader holds the right to dictate to the followers to renounce their critical faculties and to embrace a pseudo-miraculous, a mystically self-centered, delusional vision of mandatory happiness.

Author : Gerhard Besier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Communism
ISBN : 3825896579

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Fascism, Communism and the Consolidation of Democracy by Gerhard Besier Pdf

The authoritarian and totalitarian systems of individual countries have long been studied independently of each other. The separation of Eastern and Western Europe was used as a parameter by historians. This also applies to the analysis of Communism and Mussolini's Fascism. Only in recent years has the comparative perspective in the regional, chronological and system-oriented sense been applied, thus allowing many phenomena to be correctly understood and assessed. Central and Eastern Europe is tied to Western and Southern Europe by the experience of dictatorship and the ongoing need to evaluate and come to terms with these dictatorships. In the present anthology Mussolini's Fascism, National Socialism and Communism are examined comparatively. Similarities, connections and mutual influences in these dictatorships are sought. Finally, the transition from dictatorship to democracy is examined. With this collection of essays the editors intend to give impulse for inter-European comparative research on dictatorships and democracy.

Author : Albert Weisbord
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : UIUC:30112000714045

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Fascism, communism by Albert Weisbord Pdf

Author : Carl Cohen
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X004095761

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Communism, Fascism, and Democracy by Carl Cohen Pdf

Part Two, Fascism, presents central passages from notable Italian and German fascists not readily accessible elsewhere. In this third edition, Part Two is reorganized to exhibit more clearly the relation between the early theoretical defenses of irrationalism and nationalism and the manifestation of these themes in the politics of fascist Italy and Germany.

Author : R. Palme Dutt
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781434405234

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Fascism and Social Revolution by R. Palme Dutt Pdf

Author : William Ebenstein,Edwin Fogelman
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015000218498

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Today's Isms by William Ebenstein,Edwin Fogelman Pdf

The conflict between totalitarianism and democracy pro- vides the framework for a discussion of recent political and economic changes throughout the world.

Author : Michael Parenti
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780872868199

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Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti Pdf

A bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology. These terms are often bandied about, but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark. Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege. He also maps out the external and internal forces that destroyed communism, and the disastrous impact of the "free-market" victory on eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He affirms the relevance of taboo ideologies like Marxism, demonstrating the importance of class analysis in understanding political realities and dealing with the ongoing collision between ecology and global corporatism. Written with lucid and compelling style, this book goes beyond truncated modes of thought, inviting us to entertain iconoclastic views, and to ask why things are as they are. "A penetrating and persuasive writer with an astonishing array of documentation to implement his attacks." —The Catholic Journalist "By portraying the struggle between fascism and Communism in this century as a single conflict, and not a series of discrete encounters, between the insatiable need for new capital on the one hand and the survival of a system under siege on the other, Parenti defines fascism as the weapon of capitalism, not simply an extreme form of it. Fascism is not an aberration, he points out, but a 'rational' and integral component of the system."—Stan Goff, author of Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century Michael Parenti, PhD Yale, is an internationally known author and lecturer. He is one of the nation's leading progressive political analysts. Author of over 275 published articles and twenty books, his writings are published in popular periodicals, scholarly journals, and his op-ed pieces have been in leading newspapers such as The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. His informative and entertaining books and talks have reached a wide range of audiences in North America and abroad.

Author : Lyman Bryson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Communism
ISBN : UCAL:$B241977

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Which Way America? by Lyman Bryson Pdf

Author : Kurt Weyland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108844338

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Assault on Democracy by Kurt Weyland Pdf

Why did democratization suffer reversal during the interwar years, while fascism and authoritarianism spread across many European countries?

Author : Eve Rosenhaft
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1983-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 052123638X

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Beating the Fascists? by Eve Rosenhaft Pdf

In this book Eve Rosenhaft examines the involvement of Communists in political violence during the years of Hitler's rise to power in Germany (1929-33). Specifically, she aims to account for their participation in `street-fighting' or 'gang-fighting' with National Socialist storm-troopers. The origins of this conflict are examined at two levels. First Dr Rosenhaft analyses the official policy of the Communist Party towards fascism and Nazism, and the special anti-fascist and self-defence organizations which it developed. Among the aspects of Communist policy that are explored are the relation between the international confrontation between Communists and Social Democrats as claimants to lead the left, and the implications of this dispute in German politics; the ideological difficulties in the implementation of Communist policy in a period of economic dislocation; and the organizational problems posed by the fight against fascism. Dr Rosenhaft then explores the attitudes and experience of the Communist rank and file engaged in the struggle against fascism, concentrating on the city of Berlin, where a fierce contest for control of the streets was waged.

Author : William Ebenstein
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002611403

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Today's Isms; Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, Socialism by William Ebenstein Pdf

Author : J.-Lucien Radel
Publisher : Crane Russak, Incorporated
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015002721861

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Roots of Totalitarianism by J.-Lucien Radel Pdf

Author : Paul Corner
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191609930

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Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes by Paul Corner Pdf

Fascism, Nazism, and Communism dominated the history of much of the twentieth century, yet comparatively little attention has focused on popular reactions to the regimes that sprang from these ideologies. Popular Opinion in Totalitarian Regimes is the first volume to investigate popular reactions to totalitarian rule in the Soviet Union, Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the communist regimes in Poland and East Germany after 1945. The contributions, written by internationally acknowledged experts in their fields, move beyond the rather static vision provided by traditional themes of consent and coercion to construct a more nuanced picture of everyday life in the various regimes. The book provides many new insights into the ways totalitarian regimes functioned and the reasons for their decline, encouraging comparisons between the different regimes and stimulating re-evaluation of long-established positions.

Author : Kevin Passmore
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191508554

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Fascism: A Very Short Introduction by Kevin Passmore Pdf

What is fascism? Is it revolutionary? Or is it reactionary? Can it be both? Fascism is notoriously hard to define. How do we make sense of an ideology that appeals to streetfighters and intellectuals alike? That is overtly macho in style, yet attracts many women? That calls for a return to tradition while maintaining a fascination with technology? And that preaches violence in the name of an ordered society? In the new edition of this Very Short Introduction, Kevin Passmore brilliantly unravels the paradoxes of one of the most important phenomena in the modern world—tracing its origins in the intellectual, political, and social crises of the late nineteenth century, the rise of fascism following World War I, including fascist regimes in Italy and Germany, and the fortunes of 'failed' fascist movements in Eastern Europe, Spain, and the Americas. He also considers fascism in culture, the new interest in transnational research, and the progress of the far right since 2002. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.