The Core ideas and axioms of classical fascism (1919-1945)


Autoria(s): Antón Mellón, Joan
Contribuinte(s)

Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials. Barcelona, Catalunya

Data(s)

2008

Resumo

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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Identificador

http://hdl.handle.net/2072/13444

Idioma(s)

eng

Publicador

Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya)

Relação

Working papers (Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Barcelona, Catalunya));272

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Palavras-Chave #Feixisme -- Història -- 1919-1945
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