The Global Right in the World Revolutions of 1917 and 20xx

Abstract

An understanding of the contemporary constellation of right-wing national and transnational social movements needs to compare the recent movements and the global context with what happened in the first half of the twentieth century to figure out the similarities and differences, and to gain insights about what could be the consequences of the reemergence of populist nationalism and fascist movements. This article uses the comparative evolutionary world-systems perspective to study the global right from 1900 to the present. The point is to develop a better understanding of twenty-first century fascism, populist nationalism, and authoritarian practices and to help construct a praxis for the New Global Left.1

TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON A GLOBAL SECULAR AGE - A Secular Age beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley, and Shylashri Shankar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 440. $120.00 CAD (cloth); $34.99 CAD (paper); $28.00 USD (digital). ISBN: 9781108417716.

“…10 To capture the historical dimensions of a secular age outside the North-Atlantic world after 1945, the Cold War is a largely underappreciated context for political secularism. The growing antagonism between a "global right" that ideologically defended inequality in its various manifestations within and between societies, 11 and reform-oriented forces including communist movements, labor and peasant unions, and socialist circles strongly inuenced the role religious organizations, values, and practices played in state and society around the world. 12 The Tradition, Family, and Property, or TFP, movement, for example, was founded in Brazil in 1960 under the leadership of local conservative Catholics to oppose any kind of reform that potentially threatened the status of the Catholic Church in Brazilian society and that questioned existing social hierarchies, the unequal distribution of private property, and the constitutional monarchy.…”

Business Collaboration within the Nazi War Machine: Corporations and the State in the Austrian Semiperiphery

“…INSIGHTS INTO THE POSSIBILITIES of twenty‐first century fascism (Chase‐Dunn, Dudley, and Grimes ) can be gained by studying the Nazi regime in Germany, in particular how the largest banks and industrial conglomerates collaborated with the Nazi regime and its horrific policies by financing and producing the material of war (Tooze ).…”