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

The longue duree of the far-right : an introduction / Richard Saull. [et al.] -- 1. The origins and persistence of the far-right : capital, class and the pathologies of liberal politics / Richard Saull -- 2. Mass hysteria or a class act? : premonitions of fascism between Marxism and liberalism / Ishay Landa -- 3. Hegemonic transition, war and opportunities for fascist militarism / Sefika Kumral -- 4. Reaction and adaptation in the longue duree : the far-right, international politics and the state in historical perspective / Angelos-Stylianos Chryssogelos -- 5. Passato e presente? : Gramsci's analysis of fascism and the far-right / Nicola Short -- 6. The far-right and "the needs of capital" / Neil Davidson -- 7. The far right and neoliberalism : willing partner or hegemonic opponent? / Owen Worth -- 8. Poland's recombinant far-right populism and the reconfiguration of post-communist neoliberalisation / Stuart Shields -- 9. Hegemony and the far right : policing dissent in imperial America / Mark Rupert.

"This volume brings together a number of UK and non-UK-based scholars to offer an original perspective on the analysis of far-right movements and politics. The principal entry point of this volume's analysis is to challenge the existing literatures on the far-right through offering a very different methodological and theoretical perspective in examining the far-right. Thus, the approach offered in this volume is that of 'longue duree' analysis whereby the far-right is understood as a product of deeper and longer-term structures of socio-economic and political development. The far-right is seen as an evolving subject of (capitalist) modernity such that an assessment of its contemporary characteristics needs to consider the way in which the far-right is a constitutive current of longer-term socio-economic and political developments. It aims to provide a (critical) theoretically-informed assessment of the history of the far-right that centres the international as key to any understanding of the far-right"--

"This volume brings together a number of UK and non-UK-based scholars to offer an original perspective on the analysis of far-right movements and politics. The principal entry point of this volume's analysis is to challenge the existing literatures on the far-right through offering a very different methodological and theoretical perspective in examining the far-right. Thus, the approach offered in this volume is that of 'longue durée' analysis whereby the far-right is understood as a product of deeper and longer-term structures of socio-economic and political development. The far-right is seen as an evolving subject of (capitalist) modernity such that an assessment of its contemporary characteristics needs to consider the way in which the far-right is a constitutive current of longer-term socio-economic and political developments. It aims to provide a (critical) theoretically-informed assessment of the history of the far-right that centres the international as key to any understanding of the far-right"--