Friedrich Meinecke
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The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution (1989, Naissance de l'idéologie fasciste) is a book by Ze'ev Sternhell with Mario Sznajder and Maia Asheri. It argues that European fascism first articulated itself as a cultural phenomenon, as a nonconformist, avant-garde, revolutionary movement.
Blurb:
When The Birth of Fascist Ideology was first published in 1989 in France and in 1993 in Italy, it aroused a storm of response, both positive and negative. In Sternhell's view, fascism was much more than an episode in the history of Italy. He argues here that it possessed a coherent ideology with deep roots in European civilization. Long before fascism became a political force, he maintains, it was a major cultural phenomenon.
Contents
- Introduction: Fascism as an alternative political culture --
- Georges Sorel and the antimaterialist revision of Marxism --
- Revolutionary revisionism in France --
- revolutionary syndicalism in Italy --
- The socialist-national synthesis --
- The Mussolini crossroads : from the Critiuw of Marxism to national socialism and fascism --
- Epilogue: From a cultural rebellion to a political revolution.
See also
- Against Friedrich Meinecke and Gerhard Ritter and Ernst Nolte
- Croce said fascism was a parenthesis, an infection, a "decline in the consciousness of liberty."
