The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology

239 Pages·2014·3.316 MB·English

by  Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson, Adam Fabry

The Longue Durée of the Far- Right
This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an ori-
ginal analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing liter-
ature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective. The
approach offered here is that of ‘longue durée’ analysis, whereby the far-right is
understood as an evolving subject of capitalist modernity. The authors argue that
an assessment of the contemporary characteristics of the far-right needs to con-
sider the ways in which it is a product of deeper and longer-term structures of
socio-economic and political development, than, for example, the inter-war
crises of capitalism.
The book aims to provide a critical and theoretically informed assessment of
the history of the far-right that centres on the international as key to any under-
standing of its evolution, and which distinguishes between the fascist and non-
fascist variants as an essential precondition for comprehending the far-right
presence in contemporary politics.
Richard Saull is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at Queen Mary,
University of London, UK.
Alexander Anievas is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of
Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK.
Neil Davidson is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Glasgow, UK.
Adam Fabry is an independent researcher.
Routledge Studies in Modern History
1 Isolation 8 Restoration and History
Places and practices of exclusion The search for a useable
Edited by Carolyn Strange and environmental past
Alison Bashford Edited by Marcus Hall
2 From Slave Trade to Empire 9 Foundations of Modernity
European colonisation of Black Africa Human agency and the imperial state
1780s–1880s Isa Blumi
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10 Transpacific Revolutionaries
3 Revolution, Counter- Revolution The Chinese Revolution in Latin
and Revisionism in Postcolonial America
Africa Matthew D. Rothwell
The case of Mozambique,
1975–1994 11 First World War Nursing
Alice Dinerman New perspectives
Edited by Alison S. Fell and
4 Charity and Mutual Aid in Europe Christine E. Hallett
and North America since 1800
Edited by Paul Bridgen and 12 The Ideological Cold War
Bernard Harris The politics of neutrality in Austria
and Finland
5 Churchill, Roosevelt and India Johanna Rainio-N iemi
Propaganda during World War II
Auriol Weigold 13 War and Displacement in the
Twentieth Century
6 Genocide and Fascism Global conflicts
The eliminationist drive in Fascist Edited by Sandra Barkhof and
Europe Angela K. Smith
Aristotle Kallis
14 The Longue Durée of the Far- Right
7 Scientific Research in World War II An international historical sociology
What scientists did in the war Edited by Richard Saull,
Edited by Ad Maas and Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson and
Hans Hooijmaijers Adam Fabry
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An international historical sociology
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Neil Davidson and Adam Fabry
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Longue durée of the far-right : an international historical sociology / edited
by Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson and Adam Fabry.
pages cm. – (Routledge studies in modern history ; 14)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Right-wing extremists–History. 2. Conservatism–History. 3. Right
and left (Political science) I. Saull, Richard, editor of compilation.
II. Anievas, Alexander, editor of compilation. III. Davidson, Neil,
editor of compilation. IV. Fabry, Adam, editor of compilation.
HN17.5.L657 2014
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Contents
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
The longue durée of the far- right: an introduction 1
RICHARD SAULL, ALEXANDER ANIEVAS, NEIL DAVIDSON
AND ADAM FABRY
1 The origins and persistence of the far- right: capital, class
and the pathologies of liberal politics 21
RICHARD SAULL
2 Mass hysteria or a class act? Premonitions of fascism
between Marxism and liberalism 44
ISHAY LANDA
3 Hegemonic transition, war and opportunities for fascist
militarism 64
ŞEFIKA KUMRAL
4 Reaction and adaptation in the longue durée: the far- right,
international politics and the state in historical perspective 85
ANGELOS- STYLIANOS CHRYSSOGELOS
5 Passato e presente? Gramsci’s analysis of fascism and the
far- right 106
NICOLA SHORT
6 The far- right and ‘the needs of capital’ 129
NEIL DAVIDSON
viii Contents
7 The far- right and neoliberalism: willing partner or
hegemonic opponent? 153
OWEN WORTH
8 Poland’s recombinant far- right populism and the
reconfiguration of post- communist neoliberalisation 173
STUART SHIELDS
9 Hegemony and the far- right: policing dissent in imperial
America 193
MARK RUPERT
Index 217
Contributors
Alexander Anievas is an Early Career Leverhulme Fellow in the Department of
Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. He is the editor
of Marxism and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism (Routledge,
2010) and author of the monograph Capital, the State and War: Class Con-
flict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years’ Crisis, 1914–1945 (University of
Michigan Press, 2014). He is a member of the editorial collective Historical
Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.
Angelos- Stylianos Chryssogelos currently teaches International and European
politics in the Department of Politics and Public Administration of the Uni-
versity of Limerick. He holds a Ph.D. from the European University Institute
in Florence. He has previously published on the foreign policy of European
populists parties.
Neil Davidson lectures in Sociology in the School of Political and Social Sci-
ences, University of Glasgow. He is the author of Discovering the Scottish
Revolution (Pluto Press, 2003), for which he was awarded the Deutscher
Memorial Prize and the Fletcher of Saltoun Award. His most recent works are
How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions? (2012) and Holding
Fast to an Image of the Past (2014), both published by Haymarket Books.
Adam Fabry has recently obtained his PhD from the Department of Politics and
History, Brunel University. His current research focuses on the political
economy of neoliberal transformation in Hungary and elsewhere. He is the
editor of From the Vanguard to the Margins: Workers in Hungary, 1939 to the
Present (Brill, 2014). He sits on the Editorial Board of Debatte: Journal for
Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and on the Corresponding Editorial
Board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory.
Şefika Kumral is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at the
Johns Hopkins University. Her current research interests include the rela-
tion between ethnic violence and democracy; far- right movements, fascism
and militarism; international development; and the macro-c omparative
study of labour movements. She has written and published on ‘Financial-
ization and International (Dis)Order: A Comparative Analysis of the