Neofascism in Europe (1945-1989)

The text represents a long journey in the debate that characterized the multifaceted political phenomenon of neo-fascism.

Auteur

Matteo Albanese is professor of History of political parties and movements at the University of Padua. He is a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences in Lisbon, after defending his doctoral thesis at the European University Institute. He has been a visiting scholar at Sciences-po, Paris and at the New School for Social Research in New York. He is the author of essays on political violence and extremism in Italy and abroad.

Among his publications we mention: Tondini di ferro e bossoli di piombo; una storia sociale delle brigate rosse (Iron rods and lead cases, a social history of the red brigades) (Pacini 2020) and Transnational Fascism in the Twentieth Century: Spain, Italy, and the Global Neo-Fascist Network (Bloomsbury, 2016). He won the ERICS prize from Portuguese academy for this book. Most recently he also published: The Italian fascist community in Argentina. 1946-1978, European History Quarterly, Sage, Newbury Park, California, n 2/2020

Recently he was the author of a small volume on the death of Aldo Moro at the hands of the Brs published by Corriere della Sera.

Contenu

Introduction Chapter 1: The idea of Europe and the birth of neofascism * A brand-new Traditionalism

• Chapter 2: Racism between blood and culture * Ethnic social policies

The anthropological communism of black people

Anti-Zionism o anti-Semitism

• Chapter 3: Equality, citizenship, and democracy * Anti-Democratic actors in a democratic environment

Anti-capitalism transnationals plot

• Chapter 4 * Neofascism, violence and terrorism

The Iberic liaison and the 1974 change of strategy

Culture of violence or shortcut towards the siege of power?

• Chapter 5: The 1980's from depression to institutionalization Conclusions

Notes and scientific apparatus