A very timely scholarly enterprise, this book will be of interest to students of contemporary radical politics, fascism more broadly, US political history, ideologies and party politics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Introduction
1. Power in Capitalist Society
- The Logic of Capitalist Rationalization
- The Rise of State Capitalism
- The Globalization of Corporate Power
- The End of Liberalism
2. Fascism in History
- The Rise of Interwar Fascism
- Ideological Regeneration
- Fascism in Power
- Afterword: Mussolini in America
3. The Revival of Authoritarian Politics
- Mills' Power Elite
- Elite Power, Mass Alienation
- The Rightwing Ascendancy
- Wolin's "Inverted Totalitarianism"
4. The Permanent Warfare State
- Empire Versus Democracy
- Superpower: Politics, Ideology, Culture
- Militarism and Terrorism
- The Rambo Culture
- American Exceptionalism
5. Fascism of a New Type?
- Postwar Neofascism
- "Friendly Fascism"?
- Xenophobic Politics
- Reactionary Populism
- A Peculiarly American Fascism?
Afterword: Mussolini and America
Postscript 1: The Surveillance Society
Postscript 2: Donald Trump and Fascism