Are there any decent books that discuss fascism?

I'm just waiting for the first guy to post the cover of Mein Kampf. I'm pretty sure that joke hasn't been made before on /lit/.

Manifesto del Futurismo

>>8316109
Not a book, but I really enjoyed this old article from Umberto Eco in the New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

>>8316109
Part of the problem with fascism is that it doesn't do much to encourage good writers. This means there's quite a dearth of quality fascist literature.

>>8316590
does Mishima count as a fascist?

>>8316596
He's japanese, these guys don't have much in common with european fascists, except the side in the last world war.

>>8316609
actually they do a lot, surprisingly

there aren't many good books that explicitly discuss any political system really
you want to look at the foundations of that ideology imo

>>8316643
They are much more fucked in the head, that's what I meant, so not a good example. Western fascists are sort of tame.

Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism maybe

>>8316596
No

Oswald Mosley's books are good, he wasn't an edgelord

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Fascism, by Stanley G. Payne.

>>8316117
this

>>8316658
>Western fascists are sort of tame
Wut? How are Japanese fascists anymore extreme than Western fascists?

>>8316109
His critique of fascism and of nazi Germany is very good, if you haven't already read it.
>>8316596
No. Neither does (the mature) Evola for that matter.

>>8316170
I enjoyed this

>>8316596
Nope. If there is no fascist party there is no fascism.

Most people forget that and tend to consider anything authoritarian fascist.

>>8316609
>>8316658
>>8316876
Japanese fascism never existed. It was a run of the mill military junta.

>>8316926
It's best compared to pre-WWI Imperial Germany rather than fascism.

>>8316926
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Rule_Assistance_Association
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinmin_no_Michi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Investigation_of_Global_Policy_with_the_Yamato_Race_as_Nucleus

sure thing buddy

I'll second Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism and Payne's monograph on Fascism. I should also recommend anything by Robert Paxton, especially if you are interested in Vichy France.

>>8317004
>An_Investigation_of_Global_Policy_with_the_Yamato_Race_as_Nucleus

This sounds like a fucking anime

>>8317403
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>>8316663
Looks good, thanks. Apparently Payne thought at my school, which is pretty neat.

>>8316783
His history of the Spanish Civil War is good. Center-right perspective

>>8316109
Because of the nature of the topic, it's extremely difficult to find any literature discussing fascism directly that isn't decidedly pro-fascist on one end and completely anti-fascist on the other. Also most of the ones being published right now read more as Alex Jones-tier conspiracy theories than any actual in depth look at fascist ideology.

You're better off reading works that had a direct influence on fascism. Interestingly enough, Hegel is a big influence despite today being seen as more of a Marxist influence thanks to the Young Hegelians.