Fascism (book)
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Fascism is a 1995 book edited by Roger Griffin. It is a reader, in the Oxford Readers series, which assembles the writings of various authors on the topic of fascism.
It is largely composed of writings by fascists (with some critics and observers) spanning the prewar, interwar and post-war periods, up to the present.
It was published by Oxford University Press in 1995 as a 410-page paperback (ISBN 0-19-289249-5).
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| Part, Chapter, or Section | Title | Author |
| General Introduction | ||
| PART I | FASCISM IN ITALY | |
| A. | Fascism as an Opposition Movement | |
| i. | Pre-1918 Tributaries of Fascism | |
| 1. | The War as a Source of National Renewal | Giovanni Papini |
| 2. | The War as a Proletarian Cause | Revolutionary Syndicalism |
| 3. | The War as the Catharsis of Italian Society | Filippo T. Marinetti |
| 4. | The War as a Revolutionary Event | Benito Mussolini |
| 5. | 'Trenchocracy' | Benito Mussolini |
| 6. | The Futurist Vision of the New Italy | Political Futurism |
| 7. | From the Old Italy to the New | Alfredo Rocco |
| 8. | The War as the Midwife of a New Italian People | Roberto Farinacci |
| ii | Fascism in Opposition 23 March 1918 - 27 October 1922 | |
| 9. | San Sepulcro Fascism | Benito Mussolini |
| 10. | The Regency of Fiume as the Harbinger of the New Italy | Gabriele D'Annunzio and Alceste de Ambris |
| 11. | The Nationalist Blueprint for a New Italy | The Italian Nationalist Association |
| 12. | The Squadistri as the Revolutionaries of the New Italy | Mario Piazzesi |
| 13. | Fascism as the Victory of the New Italy | Luigi Federzoni |
| 14. | The Incorporation of the Peasantry into the Italian Nation | Benito Mussolini |
| 15. | Fascism's Myth: The Nation | Benito Mussolini |
| iii. | The Coalition Government 30 October 1922 - 3 January 1925 | |
| 16. | A Futurist Portrait of the New Prime Minister of Italy | Filippo T. Marinetti |
| 17. | The New State Born of Syndicalism and Statism | Sergio Panunzio |
| 18. | Fascism's European Mission | Curzio Malaparte |
| 19. | The End of the Liberal Regime | Benito Mussolini |
| B. | Fascism in Power January 1925-April 1945 | |
| i. | The Formative Years of the 'Totalitarian' Regime January 1925-February 1929 | |
| 20. | Fascism as a Total Conception of Life | Giovanni Gentile |
| 21. | Fascist Mysticism | Italian Fasci Abroad |
| 22. | Fascism as the Creator of the Third Italian Civilization | Benito Mussolini |
| 23. | The Leader as the Voice of the Reborn Race | Augusto Turati |
| 24. | The Strength in Numbers | Benito Mussolini |
| 25. | The Strength in Numbers | Benito Mussolini |
| 26. | The Anti-Modernist Aesthetic of Strapaese | Mino Maccari |
| 27. | The University as the Incubator of a Fascist Elite | Giuseppe Bottai |
| 28. | The Achievements of the Fascist Revolution | Benito Mussolini |
| ii | The Period of Consolidation 1930-1934 | |
| 29. | Towards a Fascist Europe | Asvero Gravelli |
| 30. | The Role of Youth under Fascism | Giovanni Giurati |
| 31. | Fascist Corporativism as the Key to a New International Order | Ugo Spirito |
| 32. | Mussolini's Century | Giuseppe Bottai |
| 33. | Going to the People | Achille Starace |
| 34. | The Birth of a New Civilization | Benito Mussolini |
| iii | Imperialist Expansion and Alignment with Nazism 1935-1939 | |
| 35. | The Vital Need for Empire | Benito Mussolini |
| 36. (a) | From the Abyssinian Campaign | Marching Songs of Fascist Soldiers Abroad |
| 36. (b) | From the Spanish Campaign | Marching Songs of Fascist Soldiers Abroad |
| 37. | The Autarkic Mentality and the New Fascist Order | Edmondo Rossoni |
| 38. | Blood Brothers: Fascism and Nazism | Benito Mussolini |
| 39. | The Introduction of Fascist Racial Policy | Gioacchino Volpe |
| iv | Fascism at War 1940-1943 | |
| 40. | People of Italy! Run to your Arms! | Benito Mussolini |
| 41. | Safeguarding Europe's Birthright against the Jewish Conspiracy | Alfredo Cioffi |
| 42. | The New Europe which will Arise from the Axis Victory | Carlo Costamagna |
| v | The Italian Socialist Republic 1943-1945 | |
| 43. | Fascism Reborn | The Fascist Republican Party |
| 44. | The Greatest Massacre of All Time: Democracy | Benito Mussolini |
| 45. | What Might Have Been: Axis Europe | Benito Mussolini |
| PART II | FASCISM IN GERMANY | |
| A. | German Fascism before the Nazi Seizure of Power | |
| i | Pre-1914 Precursors of German Fascism | |
| 46. | The Redemptive Mission of German Culture | Richard Wagner |
| 47. | The Need to Transcend Liberalism | Paul De LaGarde |
| 48. | The Rebirth of German Genius | Julius Langbehn |
| 49. | Planting the New Reich | Stefan George |
| 50. | The Need for the Nation to be Healed | Theodor Fritsch |
| ii | Non-Nazi German Fascisms | |
| 51. | The Resurgence of the West | Otto Dickel |
| 52. | The Eternal German Reich | Arthur Moeller Van Den Bruck |
| 53. | The Organic German Nation | Edgar Jung |
| 54. | The Great War: Father of a New Age | Ernst Junger |
| 55. | The Germany of the Freikorps | Ernst von Salomon |
| 56. | The Emergence of a New Type of Human Being | Ernst Junger |
| 57. | The Prussian Spirit: Salvation of the White Race | Oswald Spengler |
| 58. | The German Knight as the Key to Europe's Recovery | Otto Strasser |
| iii | Nazism before 1933 | |
| 59. | The Mission of the Nazi Movement | Adolf Hitler |
| 60. | Barren Trees | Franz Pfeffer Von Salomon |
| 61. | 'Christ-Socialism' | Joseph Goebbels |
| 62. | Let there be Light | Gottfried Feder |
| 63. | Motherhood and Warriorhood as the Key to a National Socialism | Gregor Strasser |
| 64. | Nordic Thinking and the German Rebirth | Hans F.K. Gunther |
| 65. | Breeding a New Nobility | R. Walther Darré |
| 66. | The New Human Synthesis | E. Gunther Grundel |
| B. | German Fascism in Power 1933-1945 | |
| i | The Establishment of the Third Reich 1933-1935 | |
| 67. | German Rebirth | Alfred Rosenberg |
| 68. | The Third Reich as Savior of the West | Hermann Göring |
| 69. | The Total Revolution of National Socialism | Joseph Goebbels |
| 70. | The New Breed of German | Gottfried Benn |
| 71. | The New German Woman | Paula Siber |
| 72. | The Legal Basis of the Total State | Carl Schmitt |
| 73. | The Place of Art in Germany's Political Reawakening | Adolf Hitler |
| ii | The Period of Consultation 1936-1939 | |
| 74. | Soldierly Economics | Werner Daitz |
| 75. | The Joy of the National Socialist Economy | Robert Ley |
| 76. | The Expansionary Spirit of a Rejuvenated People | Paul Ritter |
| 77. | Nazism's World Crusade against the Jews | Hammer Press |
| 78. | The Divine Mission of the SS | Heinrich Himmler |
| 79. | The Role of Youth in Perpetuating the Third Reich | Willi F. Konitzer |
| 80. | The Successful Cleansing of German Culture | Helmuth Langenbucher |
| 81. | National Socialism as the Custodian of European Being | Martin Heidegger |
| 82. | The Third Reich as the Cure for the European Sickness | Christoph Steding |
| iii | The Third Reich at War 1939-1945 | |
| 83. | The New European Order | Paul Herre |
| 84. | A National Socialist Common Market | Hans S. V. Heister |
| 85. | Improving the Stock | Walter Gross |
| 86. | The True Meaning of the War | Joseph Goebbels |
| 87. | The Ultimate Turning-Point: Total War | Robert Ley |
| 88. | Moral Dilemmas | Heinrich Himmler |
| 89. | Heimat | Schwarzes Korps |
| 90. | The Rebirth of National Socialism | Adolf Hitler |
| PART III | ABORTIVE FASCISMS 1922-1945 | |
| A. | European Fascisms | |
| i. | Britain | |
| 91. | Christ, Nietzsche, and Caesar | Oswald Mosley |
| 92. | Towards a Fascist Europe | Oswald Mosley |
| 93. | A Corporate Britain | Alexander Raven Thomson |
| 94. | Britain Awake! | E.D. Randell |
| 95. | A Spiritual Typhus | Arthur Kenneth Chesterton |
| 96. | Hitler Shows the Way | William Joyce |
| ii | Ireland | |
| 97. | The New Corporate Ireland | Eoin O'Duffy |
| iii | Spain | |
| 98. | The Voice of Spain | Ramiro Ledesma Ramos |
| 99. | Total Feeling | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera |
| 100. | Bread and Justice | Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera |
| 101. | A New Breed of Spaniards | Antonio Vallejo-Nagera |
| iv | Portugal | |
| 102. | The Wind of Change | Rolão Preto |
| 103. | Ersatz Fascism | Rolão Preto |
| v | France | |
| 104. | Empty Portfolios | George Valois |
| 105. | Saving France | Jacques Doriot |
| 106. | The European Revolution and the New State | Marcel Déat |
| 107. | The Rebirth of European Man | Pierre Drieu La Rochelle |
| vi | Belgium | |
| 108. | The Revolution of Souls | Leon Degrelle |
| 109. | Fascism's Century | Jose Streel |
| vii | Norway | |
| 110. | The Nordic Revival | Vidkun Quisling |
| 111. | A Greater Norway | Vidkun Quisling |
| viii | Finland | |
| 112. | The Battle for the New Finland | Lapua |
| 113. | The Revolution of the Finnish Heart | Elias Simojoki |
| ix | Estonia | |
| 114. | A New Estonia | Evl |
| x | Latvia | |
| 115. | A Latvian Latvia | Gustavs Celminš |
| xi | Romania | |
| 116. | The Romanian Legionary's Mission in Spain | Ion Moţa |
| 117. | The Resurrection of the Race | Corneliu Codreanu |
| xii | Hungary | |
| 118. | Hungarism | Ferenc Szálasi |
| B. | Non-European Fascisms | |
| i. | South Africa | |
| 119. | The Reawakening of the Boerevolk | Ossewabrandwag |
| ii | Chile | |
| 120. | Chilean Action and National Regeneration | Carlos Keller |
| 121. | The Soul of the Race | Jorge González von Mareés |
| iii | Brazil | |
| 122. | A Fourth Era of Humanity Dawns | Plinio Salgado |
| 123. | The Soul of the Nation Awakens | Plinio Salgado |
| iv | Japan | |
| 124. | The Need for a Totalitarian Japan | Nakano Seigō |
| 125. | Write Your Own Mein Kampf | Nakano Seigō |
| PART IV | THEORIES OF FASCISM | |
| A. | Reactions to Fascism 1920-1945 | |
| i | Ambivalent or Positive Reactions to the Spread of Fascism | |
| 126. | Black Sheep | Vilfredo Pareto |
| 127. | A Plague of Amateur Mussolinis | Kenneth Roberts |
| 128. | A Sunny Disposition | Robert Michels |
| 129. | The Italian Volksstaat | Johann W. Mannhardt |
| 130. | The Italian Experiment | Erwin von Beckerath |
| 131. | To Each Country its Own Fascism | James Strachey Barnes |
| 132. | The Makers of Europe | Giuseppe Borgese |
| 133. | A Sense of Humor | Sir Charles Petrie |
| 134. | A Bad Good Thing | H.G. Wells |
| ii | Interpretations of Fascism by Marxists | |
| 135. | Three Comintern Responses to Fascism | Comintern |
| (a) | Opening the Door to Fascism | Comintern |
| (b) | White Terror | Comintern |
| (c) | Fruit of the Womb | Comintern |
| 136. | Erroneous Definitions | Palmiro Togliatti |
| 137. | The Purging Fires of Fascism | R. Palme Dutt |
| 138. | The Return of the Dark Ages | E. J. Strachey |
| iii | Democratic Critiques of Fascism | |
| 139. | Tribal Loyalties | G.D.H. and M.I. Cole |
| 140. | Dragon's Teeth | R.A. Brady |
| 141. | The Hopeless Task | Karl Polanyi |
| 142. | Rabbits Ruled by Stoats | George Orwell |
| 143. | Black Magic | Peter Drucker |
| 144. | The Iron Heel | Max Horkheimer |
| iv | Four Wartime Analyses of Fascism | |
| 145. | Forcing Elephants into Foxholes | Wilhelm Reich |
| 146. | The Fear of Freedom | Erich Fromm |
| 147. | Market Forces | Harold Laski |
| 148. | Rationalism Debunked | Talcott Parsons |
| B. | Post-War Judgements on Fascism | |
| i | Some Approaches to Fascism | |
| 149. | Paradigms of Fascism | Bernt Hagtvet and Stein Larsen |
| a. | Marxist Approaches | |
| 150. | The View From Moscow | A Soviet Political Dictionary |
| 151. | The View from East Germany | Joachim Petzold |
| 152. | The View of a Western Marxist | Martin Kitchen |
| b. | Fascism as the Product of Structural Forces | |
| 153. | Extremism of the Centre | Seymour M. Lipset |
| 154. | Defective Nation-Building | Bernt Hagtvet and Stein Rokkan |
| 155. | Redemptive Potential | Geoffrey Eley |
| c. | Psycho-Historical Approaches | |
| 156. | Fear and Destructiveness | The Frankfurt School |
| 157. | Making Sense | Gerald M. Platt |
| 158. | Raising the Dead | Klaus Theweleit |
| d. | Modernization Theories | |
| 159. | Blood and Death | Barrington Moore |
| 160. | Utopian Anti-Modernism | Henry A. Turner Jun |
| 161. | Fascist Modernity | Emilio Gentile |
| ii | Some Individual Theories of the Fascist Minimum | |
| 162. | Resisting Transcendence | Ernst Nolte |
| 163. | The Total Charismatic Community | A. James Gregor |
| 164. | The Latecomer | Juan B. Linz |
| 165. | Verbal Revolutionarism | Renzo de Felice |
| 166. | A Mulish Concept | Gilbert Allardyce |
| 167. | A Third Way | George L. Mosse |
| 168. | A New Nationalist Authoritarian State | Stanley Payne |
| 160. | A New Civilization | Zeev Sternhell |
| 170. | The New Synthesis | Roger Eatwell |
| PART V | POST-WAR FASCISMS | |
| i | Verdicts on the 'Fascist Era' from Veteran Fascists | |
| 171. | Fascism: Myth and Reality | Julius Evola |
| 172. | The Third Reich: The Triumph of the Demagogues | Ernst Niekisch |
| 173. | Lenin was Right | Maurice Bardeche |
| 174. | The Ideals of the Fascist Era | Leon Degrelle |
| 175. | The Lunacy of Fascism and Nazism | Arthur Kenneth Chesterton |
| 176. | Hubris and Miscalculation | Oswald Mosley |
| ii | Discourses of Post-War Fascism | |
| (a) | Universal Nazism | |
| 177. | The Revival of National Socialism | Colin Jordan |
| 178. | A Racist Catechism | The West European Foundation |
| 179. | How to Save Europe | Guy Amaudruz |
| (b) | Holocaust Denial | |
| 180. | The Miracle of the Telephone Box | Leon Degrelle |
| 181. | A Monumental Lie | Thies Christophersen |
| 182. | An Ever-Flowing River | John Day |
| (c) | Historical Revisionism | |
| 183. | The Bicycle Thief | David Irving |
| 184. | Laying it on the Line | David Irving |
| 185. | From Class War to Race War | Ernst Nolte |
| 186. | Truth and Fiction | Gerhard Frey |
| (d) | Eurofascism | |
| 187. | The European Revolution | The Malmo Manifesto |
| 188. | The True Europe's Revolt against the Modern World | Julius Evola |
| 189. | Europe a Nation | Oswald Mosley |
| (e) | The New Right | |
| 190. | Regenerating History | Alain de Benoist |
| 191. | The Metapolitical Rebirth of Europe | Pierre Krebbs |
| 192. | A Breath of Fresh Air | Michael Walker |
| (f) | The Conservative Revolution | |
| 193. | German Nihilism | Armin Mohler |
| 194. | The Will to Modernity of the Conservative Revolution | Louis Dupeux |
| 195. | Heroic Realism | Robert Steukers |
| (g) | Third Position | |
| 196. | The European Genius and the Rediscovery of the Sacred | Adolfo Morganti |
| 197. | The Political Soldier and the National Revolution | Derek Holland |
| 198. | A Community of Destiny | Groupe Union Defense |
| iii | Contemporary Expressions of Fascism | |
| (a) | Ideological Fascism | |
| 199. | Songs for Europe | Skrewdriver |
| 200. | The Immortal Principle | Hartwig Huber |
| 201. | The Greening of Nazism | Padraig Cullen |
| 202. | Spiritual AIDS | John Tyndall |
| (b) | Militant Fascism | |
| 203. | Blood, Soil, and Faith | L'Oeuvre Francaise |
| 204. | The Cleansing Hurricane | William Pierce |
| 205. | Patriots of the World Unite! | Paymat |
| 206. | God's Own | Afrikaner-Weerstandsbeweging |
| 207. | The Romanian Ethnocratic State | Noua Dreapta |
| (c) | Electoral Fascism | |
| 208. | Living Stones of the New Spain | Frente Nacional |
| 209. | The European Home | Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands |
| 210. | Saving the Nation | British National Party |
| 211. | For a New Italy | Movimento Sociale Italiano |
| 212. | King Kong Meets his Match | Russia's Liberal Democratic Party |
| EPILOGUE | ||
| 213. | The Deadly Trunk of Fascism | Primo Levi |
| Select Bibliography | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Index |
[edit] External link
- Bed Time Book of Famous Beasts, a review by Vasiili E. Molodiakov in The Scorpion.
