A. James Gregor
Auteur de Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political Thought
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A. James Gregor is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, and has served as H. L. Oppenheimer Professor at the Marine Corps University at Quantico, Virginia. For his work on the history of the peninsula, he was awarded a knighthood in the Order of Merit afficher plus of the Republic of Italy. He is the author of thirty books, most recently Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism (Stanford University Press, 2008). afficher moins
Œuvres de A. James Gregor
Marxism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism (2008) 30 exemplaires
Metascience & politics : an inquiry into the conceptual language of political science (2003) 6 exemplaires
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Gregor argues at the end of book... well, even at the beginning he argues that most of what people call neo-Fascism, that has nothing to do with Fascism. Yeah, there is racism around... but just because people are racist, that doesn't make them Fascist. Again, Fascism was not fundamentally racist, nothing like how German National Socialism was. This book was published in 2005. It'd be interesting to see what Gregor thinks now. Hmmm. What might a book like Trump's Intellectuals look like. Steve Bannon, maybe Ted Cruz. Are there any kind of intellectuals in the Christian Right? Rushdoony and Dominion Theology... Gregor does discuss at some length how Fascism and the Catholic Church were pretty well aligned... that was another shift from Marxist syndicalism to Fascism, along with nationalism.
Certainly a major component of today's right wing is its anti-intellectualism. Gregor does a good job of showing that Mussolini and Fascism were not anti-intellectual. Gregor mostly portrayed Italian Fascism as mainly growing from Italian roots, though he mentions Hegel repeatedly as an intellectual foundation, along with Marx and Rousseau. But we aren't really shown how the Fascists were responding to intellectual developments outside of Italy during the 1920s and 1930s.... well, there are responses to political developments... the Fascists could see how the Bolsheviks were evolving, and learn from their mistakes... and then the accommodations to Nazi ideas in the late 1930s... but these came not out of intellectual inspiration, but political necessity.
Gregor is quite clear, that this book is quite limited. What it touches on but doesn't investigate in depth - how are ideas and actions related? Today's right wing doesn't seem to have the intellectual coherence of the Italian fascists... Tucker Carlson is no Sergio Panunzio... and yet, in November 2022, it's more than merely possible that the right wing will take over and crush our liberal democracy - the ideal of fair elections may be crushed - how will we get it back? Once we have an authoritarian government.... how will Jordan Peterson and Gary North coordinate policy?
Gregor does a great job of showing the intellectual coherence of Fascist thought and distinguishing it from the incoherence of the racist mobs we face nowadays... but he doesn't give us any real help in understanding our present situation... I imagine he has been surprised by how the authoritarian movement has continued to expand... the soil that nurtures it is quite different than that of the 1920s and 1930s.… (plus d'informations)