Fascism or Whatever You Want to Call It

Confronting the Beast Locally and Globally

Saladdin Bahozde

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9783111609072
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Human Rights
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Fascism or Whatever You Want to Call It constructs a crucial framework for diagnosing and exposing fascist ideologies and movements in whatever historical and geographical circumstances or disguises they may appear. At no point in history have so many people been subjected to the rule or threat of fascist movements. Nor have power and privilege ever been so concentrated in the hands of a few. We are living in the age of the decline of bourgeois liberalism and the rise of something much less democratic, something sectarian, extremist, militaristic, and exclusionary, which should be called fascism. Because fascism deploys endless camouflaging strategies, a critical theory for diagnosing and analyzing it is desperately needed. That is what this book offers. Arguing against conventional approaches that use the European model of the 1930s as a yardstick, Bahozde conceptualizes fascism as a form, rather than a system, of power and ideology.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 Fascism Today
• Chapter 2 The Rise of Fascism and the Futility of Conventional Fascism Studies
• Chapter 3 A Critical Theory for Unmasking Fascism Everywhere
• Chapter 4 Fascism in the United States
• Chapter 5 Fascism in the Middle East and North Africa
• Chapter 6 Fascist Identitarianism, Russophilia, and Russophobia
• Chapter 7 Multi-national Fascism and False Dichotomies in International Relations
• Chapter 8 The Colonialist Roots of Fascism: Culturalism as Fascist Mode of Perception
• Chapter 9 Negations: Perpetual Critique and Emancipatory Praxis
• Index