What are some good books about fascism?

>>9886442
Fascism: A Very Short Introduction.
I haven't read it but the series of books is good in general.

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Anon with interest in fascism here


Nazism is edgy shit. Italian and British fascism actually had some intellectual and philosophical base and wasn't focused mostly on antisemitism. In fact, a popular view is that one of the reasons Mosley never came to power was that he focused too much on intellectual concerns that populism, and Mussolini deeply regretted allying with Germany towards the end of the war.

Recommended reading list:

Gregor: Mussolini's Intellectuals
Mosley: The Greater Britain, 100 questions about fascism, Right or Wrong( his magnum opus imo). If you want more of Mosley read 'My Life' by him and 'oswald mosley' by Robert Skidelsky, a good friend of Max mosley, Oswald's son.
Mussolini: All of his autobiographies are good reading (he had 3).
If you can read Italian then I reccomend Giovanni Gentile, Ugo Spirito, Corradini etc.
Georges Sorel (not a fascist but could be described as a proto fascist) - Reflections on violence
Plato is of course recommended as well.

Once you have read all these, move onto some Syndicalist works (later syndicalism had a lot in common with fascism.

Mussolini has some good essays and articles on fascism as well.

Once you have read all of these, I recommend reading the speeches of Oliver Cromwell. He clearly wasn't a fascist because the ideology did not exist until the 1900s, but he is a kind of proto fascist to a certain extent (at least according to Mosley)

Evola wasn't a fascist but his philosophy certainly had some links to fascism, but this is overstated a lot of the time. You can skip him.

A good tip is to avoid all German works on the subject. Post-war and pre-war German academics misinterpreted Italian fascism. Also try to avoid all works between 1946-2000. The emotion from the war was still raw and clouded the study into the ideology and philosophy of fascism (gregor goes into a lot of detail about this)

By the way, Mein Kampf is not necessary to read. German Nazism was not very similar to Italian/British fascism and the book is a bore to read (aside from some interesting insight into Pan-Germanism in the early 1900s).

In terms of Spanish fascism, Franco was not a fascist. Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was but he didn't write any books (I believe). Here is a good anthology of the small bits he wrote
http://fundacionjoseantonio.es/doc/Antologia_en_ingles.pdf

In my opinion mosley's works are the best on fascism, but reading the italian works as translations may have affected that.

Happy reading!

>>9886542
I'm reading 'The Alternative' from Mosley now, kind of a challenge because English is not my mother language. Julius Evola is interesting as well. Not OP by the way, just interested in Fascism.

Can anybody recommand some books on European Nationalism?

>books about fascism
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Get some education, kid.
Read Mussolini, Gentile, Evola and all of the Futurists.

Hebrew Bible
Christian Bible
The Qur'an

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>>9886481
this and pic related

https://www.counter-currents.com/2013/09/what-is-fascism/
Pity they never translated the rest of this excellent booklet.

anatomy of fascism by robert paxton is the best book I've read on the subject

I actually wanted to make this exact thread today. I too would like to read some fascist theory books. Something else I'm wondering, is Id like to read some political books by a few "quasi-Fascist" authors, specifically Gabriele D'Annunzio and Yukio Mishima. But did either of them ever write a book about their political beliefs? I know they wrote fiction, but I'd like to know what they wanted. If they have nothing, whoever influenced them would be beneficial.

>>9886542
Primo de Rivera...I've wanted to read about his political views for so long. However I couldn't find anything he wrote until today when I found his "Twenty-Six point program", but I'm sad he didn't write any books, I really want to know more about his Falange (not Franco's, that wasn't Falangism) Along with the two guys I mentioned above, does anyone know where I can get some view of what Primo de Rivera was preaching?

>>9888065
For the record, I can't speak Spanish, so I'll need a translation.

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>>9886442
this tbqh

>>9886442
"For my Legionares" is an excellent read, if you want something more intellectual and less "muh joos" I reccomend anything Mosley and Essays on Fascism

This is my personal reading list. It skews towards pretty heavily towards the perspectives that I'm interested in (the holocaust, holocaust/fascism in art & culture), but you might find it interesting:
>Arendt - Origins of Totalitarianis
>Bergen - The Holocaust: A Concise History
>Evans - The Third Reich in History and Memory
>Gottfried - Fascism: The Career of a Concept
>Paxton - Anatomy of Fascism
>Rau - Our Nazis: Representations of Fascism in Contemporary Literature and Film
>Rosenfeld - Hi Hitler!: How the Nazi Past Is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture
>Roskies - Holocaust Literature: A History and Guide
>Stone - The Holocaust, Fascism and Memory: Essays in the History of Ideas
>Wolin - The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism

Not theory, but I'd also recommend:
>Hawkes - The Cannibal
>Malaparte - Kaputt
>Moravia - The Conformist

>>9886542
where do you download these books

Joseph De Maistre, Georges Sorel, and Werner Sombart are essential thinkers to understanding fascism

>>9888449
bump for download

>>9886542
>Georges Sorel (not a fascist but could be described as a proto fascist) - Reflections on violence
This one is my favorite and heavily influenced my thinking.

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The only book you need

>>9888295
>this meme again
Heinlein was at most a Syndicalist, but trying to pinpoint a cogent ideology from his works is a nightmarish endeavor, and taking Starship Troopers as fascist at face value is negligent at best.

>>9888431
Wolin is a mind-bogglingly bad fucking book. I appreciate his willingness to write a straightforward scholarly polemic instead of editorialising and taking subtle snipes while feigning critical distance, but his actual analyses are bad.

His treatment of Nietzsche is shallow as hell, and despite my openness to guilt by association (smoke and fire, and all that) he never meets me halfway by indicating the fire. Half the time he's just pointing out the usual smoke. The Jung chapter was fine, though it read like a dozen other Martin Gardner type tabloid exposés already out there.

But what really annoyed me was his discussion of Gadamer. He takes a surface-level, worse-than-undergraduate understanding of Gadamer's hermeneutics, and then uses Gadamer's word "prejudice," meaning (for Gadamer) the fore-knowledge (literally, pre-iudicare, pre-judgment) necessary to hermeneutically engage with a text or utterance, to mean prejudice in the colloquial sense. He literally says that because Gadamer said that "prejudice is necessary to any understanding," he meant the COLLOQUIAL sense, so that it means "being prejudiced (against people) is necessary." It's the most ironic shit ever, because if he had actually read Gadamer, he would know that this juvenile error is itself an epitome of hermeneutic prejudice, of pre-judgment, gone awry: His pre-conception of what the word "prejudice" means has structured how he reads it in Gadamer, in precisely the way Gadamer advocates mindfully and artfully navigating the hermeneutic circle. He read a book teaching you how to do hermeneutics, and failed to approach it hermeneutically. Amazing.

Godawful book.

>>9890385
What is decisive is not to get out of the circle but to come into it the right way… In the circle is hidden a positive possibility of the most primordial kind of knowing. To be sure, we genuinely take hold of this possibility only when, in our interpretation, we have understood that our first, last and constant task is never to allow our fore-having, fore-sight and fore-conception to be presented to us by fancies and popular conceptions, but rather to make the scientific theme secure by working out these fore-structures in terms of the things themselves. (Being and Time 32: 195)

>>9886625
Now *THAT'S* edgy.

Carl Schmitt and Martin Heidegger for very obvious reasons.

Any good books on Fascist economics?