In this second volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers an international historical sociology of the Western far-right from the end of World War II to its contemporary manifestations in Trumpism and Brexit.
Focusing on its international causal dimensions, Saull draws on the theory of uneven and combined development to provide a distinct and original explanation of the evolution and mutations of the 'post-fascist' far-right.
Despite the transformed geopolitical context of capitalist development after 1945
with decolonization and the end inter-imperial rivalry
the far-right continued to be intimately connected to the consolidation of the anti-communist liberal order. Thereafter, the far-right also formed an important, if contradictory, element within the neoliberal historical bloc that emerged in the 1980s and has been the main ideo-political beneficiary of the 2007-8 neoliberal crisis.
By:
Richard Saull
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9798888902349
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 30 April 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Prologue Acknowledgements 1 Fascist Legacies, the Far-Right and the Making of the Cold War Liberal Order 1 The Theoretical Framing of the Cold War Western Liberal Order 1.1 Hegemony and the Far-Right in the Making of Liberal Order 2 The Cold War Liberal Order and the Far-Right after 1945 2.1 Fascist Legacies in the Post-war European Liberal State 2.2 Far-Right Movements and Parties in the Liberal Constitutional Order 2.3 Far-Right Violence, Para-Politics, and the Post-war Liberal State 2.4 Racialized Anti-communism and Political Economy in the US Cold War Liberal Order 2.5 Racialized Anti-communism, Para-Politics, and the Liberal Historical Bloc 2.6 Racialized Capitalism and the Political Economy of the New Deal 3 Conclusions 2 Neoliberal Globalization and the Rise of the ‘New’ Far-Right 1 Racial Imaginaries, the Far-Right and the Origins of Neoliberalism 1.1 Neoliberal Thinking 1.2 Neoliberal Politics 2 Neoliberal Globalization and the New International Political Economy of the Far-Right 2.1 The Geography of Neoliberal Capitalist Accumulation 2.2 Neoliberal Financialization 2.3 Neoliberal Globalization and the Class Politics of ‘National Labour’ 2.4 The Neoliberal International Institutional Order 2.5 The Post-cold War Geopolitical Landscape 3 The Politics of the Neoliberal Far-Right 3.1 Social Bases of Political Support 3.2 Racialized Social Conservatism 3.3 Welfare Nativism and Racialized Social Protectionism 3.4 Political Economy and the Nature and Limits of the Far-Right’s ‘Anti-capitalism’ 3.5 The Framing of the International in the Neoliberal Far-Right 3.6 Post-fascism and Commitment to Liberal Democracy 4 Conclusions 3 Crisis Neoliberalism and the Far-Right 1 The Neoliberal Crisis and Its Consequences 2 Crisis Neoliberalism and the Onward March of the Far-Right 2.1 Trump and the American Far-Right 2.2 Trumpism and the Post-2007–8 Political Economy of the United States 2.3 The Post-crisis Far-Right 2.4 Sources and Spaces of Trumpism 2.5 The Trump Presidency 2.6 Britain: Brexit and Crisis Neoliberalism 2.7 Britain’s Post-crisis Political Economy 2.8 The Brexit Far-Right 2.9 Sources and Spaces of Brexit 2.10 Post-referendum Politics and Political Economy 2.11 Europe: the Contradictions of the EU’s Neoliberal Order and the Refugee Crisis 2.12 Europe’s Post-crisis Political Economy and the Fault-Lines of the Sovereign Debt Crisis 2.13 The Advances – and Limits – of the Post-crisis Far-Right 2.14 Germany 2.15 France 2.16 Italy 2.17 Greece 3 Conclusions 4 Conclusions References Index
Richard Saull is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on the history and politics of the far-right and is co-editor of The Longue Dure of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology.
