Overview
This book examines the struggle between the revolutionary and conservative strands found within fascism, analysing how each faction tried to influence its movement's programs, and studying the ways in which both strands fought their battles for ideological supremacy. Through the study of this revolutionary/conservative competition, the book discusses and ultimately challenges the dominant view that fascism ought to be understood as a fully revolutionary phenomenon. Instead, it argues that while it is possible and important to propose generic definitions of fascism, it is impossible to define it as either wholly revolutionary or wholly conservative, and that it was precisely the constant inner tension between radicalism/totalitarianism and conservatism/authoritarianism that constituted one of the essential and defining features of fascism.
- | Author: Salvatore Garau
- | Publisher: Routledge
- | Publication Date: Mar 26, 2015
- | Number of Pages: 312 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 0415732190
- | ISBN-13: 9780415732192
