The Longue Durée of the Far-Right

This volume brings together a number of international scholars to offer an original analysis of far-right movements and politics, challenging the existing literature through a very different methodological and theoretical perspective. The approach offered here is that of 'longue durée' analysis, whereby the far-right is understood as an evolving subject of capitalist modernity. The authors argue that an assessment of the contemporary characteristics of the far-right needs to consider the ways in which it is a product of deeper and longer-term structures of socio-economic and political development, than, for example, the inter-war crises of capitalism. The book aims to provide a critical and theoretically-informed assessment of the history of the far-right that centres on the international as key to any understanding its evolution, and which distinguishes between the fascist and non-fascist variants as an essential precondition for comprehending the far-right presence in contemporary politics

Richard Saull, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Alexander Anievas, University of Cambridge, UK Neil Davidson, University of Glasgow, UK Adam Fabry, Brunel University, UK

1. The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An Introduction - Richard Saull, Alexander Anievas, Neil Davidson and Adam Fabry, 2. The Origins and Persistence of the Far-Right: Capital, Class and the Pathologies of Liberal Politics - Richard Saull, 3. Mass Hysteria or a Class Act? Premonitions of Fascism between Marxism and Liberalism - Ishay Landa, 4. Hegemonic Transition, War and Opportunities for Fascist Militarism - Sefika Kumral, 5. Reaction and Adaptation in the Longue Durée: The Far-Right, International Politics and the State in Historical Perspective - Angelos-Stylianos Chryssogelos, 6. Passato e Presente? Gramscis' Analysis of Fascism and the Far-Right - Nicola Short, 7. The Far-Right and 'the Needs of Capital' - Neil Davidson, 8. The Far Right and Neoliberalism: Willing Partner or Hegemonic Opponent? - Owen Worth, 9. Poland's Recombinant Far-Right Populism and the Reconfiguration of Post-Communist Neoliberalisation - Stuart Shields, 10. Hegemony and the Far Right: Policing Dissent in Imperial America - Mark Rupert