| Title | : | Fascism and Dictatorship |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Nicos Poulantzas |
| Release | : | 1974-01-01 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Political Science, Books, Politics & Current Events, Nonfiction, Philosophy |
| Size | : | 1715466 |
| Poulantzas’s book is the first major Marxist study of German and Italian fascism to appear since the Second World War. It carefully distinguishes between fascism as a mass movement before the seizure of power and fascism as an entrenched machinery of dictatorship. It compares the distinct class components of the counter-revolutionary blocs mobilzed by fascism in Germany and Italy; analyses the changing relations between the petty bourgeoisie and big capital in the evolution of fascism; discusses the structures of the fascist state itself, as an emergency regime for the defense of capital; and provides a sustained and documented criticism of official Comintern attitudes and policies towards fascism in the fateful years after the Versailles settlement. Fascism and Dictatorship represents a challenging synthesis of factual evidence and conceptual analysis that has been rare in Marxist political theory to date. |
