Deep historical trends suggest the United States could be moving
toward a distinctly novel form of fascism, embracing elements of
the historical phenomenon as it appeared in such countries as
Italy, Germany, Japan, and Spain while departing in significant
ways. A twenty-first century fascism would hardly be revolutionary
or totalitarian, as it would involve no dramatic break with the
past, following a logic of continuity and building on firmaments of
entrenched power going back to World War II. This new type of
fascist regime would be driven by a tightening confluence of
sectoral interests in American society: corporate, state, military,
and cultural - interests favoring oligarchy, authoritarianism, the
warfare system, and surveillance order within an expanding
globalized matrix of power. The dominant historical forces
emphasized by such theorists as C. Wright Mills (The Power Elite)
and Sheldon Wolin (Democracy, Inc.), an important foundation of
this book, have grown stronger and more pervasive across the
decades. An integrated power structure has been fueled by new
advances in technology, a money-saturated political system, and
neoliberal globalism bolstered by the spread of right wing populism
that, among other things, has catapulted Donald Trump into the U.S.
presidency. In this book, Carl Boggs explores new political and
ideological terrain in systematically considering the prospects for
a gradual development of fascism in contemporary American society
and, by extension, elsewhere across the advanced industrial world.
He persuasively argues that modern fascistic trends, arguably most
visible in the U.S., demonstrate a closer affinity with Mussolini's
Italy (corporate state) than with the more extreme Nazi German
model of tyranny and genocide. 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.
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