How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right.

The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again—and we need to find a better way to fight it.

In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomenon: its psychological roots, political theories, and genocidal logic. Fascism, Mason powerfully argues, is a symptom of capitalist failure, one that has haunted us throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. History shows us the conditions that breed fascism, and how it can be successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge it, and time is running out.

From the ashes of Covid-19, we have an opportunity to create a fairer, more equal society. To do so, we must ask ourselves: what kind of world do we want to live in? And what are we going to do about it?
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How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance
How can we stop the spread of fascism? The author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right.

The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again—and we need to find a better way to fight it.

In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomenon: its psychological roots, political theories, and genocidal logic. Fascism, Mason powerfully argues, is a symptom of capitalist failure, one that has haunted us throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. History shows us the conditions that breed fascism, and how it can be successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge it, and time is running out.

From the ashes of Covid-19, we have an opportunity to create a fairer, more equal society. To do so, we must ask ourselves: what kind of world do we want to live in? And what are we going to do about it?
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How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

by Paul Mason
How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

How to Stop Fascism: History, Ideology, Resistance

by Paul Mason

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How can we stop the spread of fascism? The author of PostCapitalism offers a guide to resisting the far right.

The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi's India to Bolsonaro's Brazil and Erdogan's Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again—and we need to find a better way to fight it.

In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomenon: its psychological roots, political theories, and genocidal logic. Fascism, Mason powerfully argues, is a symptom of capitalist failure, one that has haunted us throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. History shows us the conditions that breed fascism, and how it can be successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge it, and time is running out.

From the ashes of Covid-19, we have an opportunity to create a fairer, more equal society. To do so, we must ask ourselves: what kind of world do we want to live in? And what are we going to do about it?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780141996400
Publisher: Penguin Random House UK
Publication date: 05/30/2023
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Paul Mason is an award-winning writer, broadcaster, and film-maker. Previously Economics Editor of Channel 4 News, his books include PostCapitalism, Clear Bright Future: A Radical Defence of the Human Being, Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions, and Rare Earth: A Novel.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Nazis: They're Back - But Why? xi

Part 1 Ideology

1 Symbolic Violence: What Do Twenty-first-century Fascists Want? 3

2 Dreams of the Ethno-state: The Thought-architecture of Modern Fascism 21

3 Five Kinds of Trouble: The Forces Driving the Far Right 47

Part 2 History

4 Destroy Everything: The Origins of Fascism 79

5 Stopping Mussolini: A Game in Five Moves 99

6 'I Am Dazed': Why Didn't the Left Stop Hitler? 128

Part 3 Resistance

7 A Theory of Fascism: Beyond the Definition Wars 163

8 Militant Democracy 2.0: We Need a New Popular Front 200

9 Everybody Comes to Rick's: Anti-fascism as an Ethos 234

Notes 253

Acknowledgements 277

Index 279

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