Interwar Fascism in Europe and Beyond: Toward a Transnational Radical Right

Bauerkämper, Arnd

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“…They mixed easily with homegrown racisms that held import of their own. 29 When Hitler came to power in the spring of 1933, a fascination for fascism had further taken hold in Canada and manifested in the formation of several "Swastika clubs" in larger cities, such as Toronto. Such groups played a major role in the Christie Pits Riot in August 1933, when a mob "paraded a huge white sheet with a swastika" while attacking Jews in Toronto and shouting "Heil Hitler" (Figure 1).…”

Section: Illiberal Memorymentioning

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Settler Colonialism, Illiberal Memory, and German-Canadian Hate Networks in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

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This article is part of the collaborative research project Populist Publics. Housed at Carleton University (www.carleton.ca/populistpublics), it applies a data-driven analysis of online hate networks to trace how false framings of the historical past, what we call historical misinformation, circulates across platforms, shaping the politics of the center alongside the fringes. We cull large datasets from social media platforms and run them through a variety of different programs to help visualize how harmful speech and civilizational rhetoric about race, ethnicity, immigration, multiculturalism, gender equality, and LGBTQ+ rights are circulated by far-right groups across borders, noting specifically when and how they are taken up in the mainstream as legitimate discourse. Our interest is in how the distortion of the historical record is used to build alternative collective memories of the past so as to undermine minority rights and cultures in the present. We began with a basic question: To what extent is this actually new? As much as the atomized publics of our current day create ideal conditions for radical ideas to fester and circulate, it was obvious to us that we needed to look for linkages across time, drawing on interdisciplinary methods from the fields of history, media and communication, and data science to identify the tactics, strategies, and repertoires among such groups and individuals. By analyzing German-Canadian relations in particular, what follows is a first attempt to piece together some of these connections, with a focus on far-right hate groups—homegrown and imported—in the settler colonial project that is today's Canada.

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Section: Illiberal Memorymentioning

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Settler Colonialism, Illiberal Memory, and German-Canadian Hate Networks in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

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“…Various fascist leaders had already approached the Nazis in 1933, and by 1935 it was evident a considerable number of movements previously within Italy's hegemonic orbit were gravitating towards Germany. 144 In turn, Italian members of CAUR became increasingly suspicious of certain figures within the executive committee. 145 Ultimately, organisations hitherto committed to CAUR either discontinued their participation after realigning with Germany, as in the case of the Dutch National Socialist Movement, or were excommunicated as a result, exemplified by the cessation of Italian relations with the Nasjonal Samling.…”

Section: The Decline Of Caurmentioning

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An anarchical society (of fascist states): Theorising illiberal solidarism

Allen

2021

Rev. Int. Stud.

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While scholars within the English School have increasingly approached the traditionally liberal concept of solidarism in a normatively agnostic fashion, the idea of an ‘illiberal solidarism’ and historical manifestations thereof remain underexplored. One notable case in point surrounds the peculiar body of Italian interwar international thought, herein referred to as ‘international Fascism’. By discerning a synchronic outline of international Fascism, alongside the manner by which this project mutated and ultimately failed as it transformed from a vision theorised in the abstract to a practical initiative under the auspices of the Fascist regime, this article offers historical and theoretical insights into the realisability of illiberal forms of solidarism. Combining this historical account with theoretical insights derived from Reus-Smit's study on international order under conditions of cultural diversity, this article argues that the realisation of some form of solidarism necessitates the acceptance of a substantive pluralist component. Yet messianic illiberal visions that endeavour to retain the states-system, while simultaneously asserting the superiority of one community or a highly exclusionary vision of the ‘good life’, ostensibly lack the capacity to reconcile the contradictions inherent in efforts to universalise such projects.

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“…For Bauerkämper, fascist internationalism as a contradiction in terms had 'broad support from historians and has practically achieved a consensus' -with the result that 'cross-border interactions have been largely dismissed in historical scholarship'. 20 Socialist Auslandsorganisationen, in the development of fascist groups in Britain around Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, in Spain and in Latin American countries, in India, Palestine, Russia and the Arabicspeaking countries. 21 Only recently have attempts begun to investigate the structural character of fascist transnational strategies as internationalism and fascist internationalism as a state-driven strategy of global governance.…”

Section: Fascism Meets Internationalism: a Historiographymentioning

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Fascist Internationalism

Herren¹

2016

Internationalisms

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Interwar Fascism in Europe and Beyond: Toward a Transnational Radical Right

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Settler Colonialism, Illiberal Memory, and German-Canadian Hate Networks in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

Settler Colonialism, Illiberal Memory, and German-Canadian Hate Networks in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

An anarchical society (of fascist states): Theorising illiberal solidarism

Fascist Internationalism

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