9.The far-right in Europe - Alex dJ

First part

What are right-wing politics and ideology?

- What is ‘ideology’?

The dominance of right-wing ideology:

- The ruling ideas are the ideas of the ruling class

- The ‘liberal split’ in bourgeois ideology

- ‘Instrumental reason’ in capitalism

How does right-wing ideology work?

- Religion, nationalism, patriarchy

- Imagined communities, havens in a heartless world

Second part

Fascism: what is it? (and does it matter what it is?)

- The causes of fascism

- Fascism as a mass-movement

- instrument of capital, a revolution against the revolution, or both?

The far-right today

- The idea of ‘post-fascism’

- Causes for the appeal of the far-right

Third part

Left-wing strategies against fascism

- Popular front or United front

- The struggle for democracy

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Ernest Mandel: Trotsky's Theory of Fascism, part III [1]

Enzo Traverso: Post-fascism: a mutation still underway [2]

Iida Käyhkö, The Feminist Anti-Fascist Assembly: Feminist movements are our best chance of defeating the Far Right [3]

Trotsky: What Is National Socialism? [4]