9. The Far-Right and racist wave

Part I: What is fascism?

1.1 Difficulties in defining fascism

2.1 Mandel & Trotsky’s 6 points of theory of fascism:

1. Capitalist crisis 2. Tendency towards the concentration of power 3. Destruction of working class organisations 4. Role of the petty bourgeoisie 5. Retreat of working class movement 6. Difference between fascism as a movement and as a regime

3 additions 1. The influence of colonialism on the formation of fascism 2. The role of racism in fascist ideologies and regimes 3. Fascism as a sexual and gender counter-revolution

3.1 Differences now and then:

Different contexts: the neoliberal weakening of the workers’ movement

Evolution of fascist ideology; racism, colonialism,…

Traverso’s ‘post-fascism’

Part II: Racism in capitalism

Marxist analyses of racist power structures:

The justification of colonialism and imperialism

Racism and competition between workers

Racism as power structure, the role of nation-states

Part III

Post-fascists, neo-fascists, right-wing populists….

The far-right political project and its social base

United fronts

Building unity of the oppressed

The need for an alternative

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

Enzo Traverso: Authoritarianism and Democracy in the 21st Century [2]

Vishwas Satgar: THE ANTI-RACISM OF MARXISM: PAST AND PRESENT