Fascism: Thinking the Present with History

Enzo TraversoAuthoritarianism

Reflections on Authoritarian Times

What is fascism? A new wave of authoritarian governments on a global scale has relaunched this debate, but this word that spontaneously rises when we think of Donald Trump, Javier Milei, Giorgia Meloni, or Marine Le Pen is clearly inadequate to describe them. If fascism in the twenty-first century is so different from its forerunners, as many historians explain, maybe we need new concepts to apprehend it.

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