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Author(s) -
Chamsy el-Ojeili
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
counterfutures
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2463-5359
pISSN - 2463-5340
DOI - 10.26686/cf.v6i0.6384
Subject(s) - populism , nationalism , multitude , democracy , liberal democracy , consolidation (business) , sociology , berlin wall , aesthetics , political science , politics , law , philosophy , fall of man , accounting , business
The spectre of fascism currently haunts liberal democracy. This ‘keywords’ entry explores the expansion of Right-populism, white nationalism, and the alt-Right, examining the consolidation of a ‘post-fascist constellation’. I outline a five-featured ideal-type of fascism, before turning to explore post-fascism’s utopian dimensions, drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch. Against liberal attempts to mock, pathologise, or re-educate post-fascists, I argue we must attend to both the multitude of fears and the figures of a better world expressed within this formation of thought.