The Core ideas and axioms of classical fascism (1919-1945)
Antón Mellón, Joan
Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Barcelona, Catalunya

Imprint: Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya) 2008
Description: 32 p.
Abstract: This article presents and explores the axioms and core ideas, or idées-force, of the Fascist ideologies of the first third of the twentieth century. The aim is to identify the features that define the term "Classical Fascism" as a conceptual category in the study of politics and to uncover the core ideas of its political theory. This analysis requires an appraisal of both the idées-force themselves and the political use that is made of them. If these appreciations are correct, Classical Fascism is characterized by a set of ideological and political aims and methods in which ideas, attitudes and behaviours are determined by an anti-democratic palingenetic ultranationalism underpinned by a sacralized ideology; the quest for a united, indissoluble society as apolitical system and, at the same time, the collective myth that mobilizes and redeems the nation; and third, violence as a political vehicle applied unchecked against internal opposition and against external enemies who challenge the nation's progression towards the dream of rebirth and the culmination of this progression in the form of an empire.
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Language: Anglès
Series: Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Working papers
Series: Working papers (Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya)) ; 272
Document: Working paper
Subject: Feixisme ; Història ; 1919-1945



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