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Let me clear Meloni is more neo-fascist than post-fascist...Thread...There is a lot of confusion about the term Post-fascism: I presented post-war populism as post-fascism in my book, Transatlantic Fascism (2010) and I also expanded here. bpb.de/shop/zeitschri via
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Populismus als Postfaschismus - Essay
Populistische Bewegungen und Regierungen werden häufig als Faschismus bezeichnet oder damit verglichen. Die historischen Verbindungslinien zwischen beiden Phänomenen werden dagegen auch in theoreti...
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This post-war populist intention to create a new political tradition that could rule the nation but was different from fascism, and its eventual success in doing so, explains the complex historical nature of postwar populism as a varied set of authoritarian experiments
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in democracy. To be sure, modern populism incorporated elements from other traditions, but the fascist origins and effects of populism after the defeat of Hitler and Mussolini shaped its postfascist constitutive tension between democracy and dictatorship.
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In the guise of postfascist forms of antiliberal democracy, fascism continued its legacy through various combinations of populism and neofascism. The truth is that, despite the predominance of populism, many neofascist groups remained and continue to exist.
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Actual neofascist movements that, unlike the populist ones, want to flatly invoke and replicate the fascist legacy are on the rise in Europe. Countries like Greece, with its extreme right-wing movement Golden Dawn
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Sometimes neofascists are fellow travelers of populism. Populists differ from neofascists in their desire to reshape democracy in authoritarian fashion without fully destroying it, but like the neofascists, right-wing Euro-populists identify “the people” with
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an ethnically conceived national community. In Germany, the Alternative for Germany (AFD), and especially the Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West (Pegida) Movement straddle right-wing populist authoritarianism and the neo-Nazi legacies of German fascism.
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Populism started with the recognition that fascism was now part of the past rather than the present. For General Perón, the leader of the first modern populist regime in history, fascism was “an unrepeatable phenomenon, a classic style to define a precise and determined epoch.”
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Decades later, Italian neofascists arrived at a similar conclusion. Gianfranco Fini, leader of the MSI, wanted to morph it into a populist formation& argued (1993) that fascism was irreversibly consigned to the past: “Like all Italians we are not neo-fascists, but post-fascists.
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Biblio on post-fascism: from my book From Fascism to Populism in History. On postfascism and Peronism, see Finchelstein, Transatlantic Fascism, 168, 170. For a discussion of postfascism for other Latin American cases,
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see Sandra McGee Deutsch, “Fascismo, Neo-Fascismo, ou Post-Fascismo?,” Dialogos 12, no. 3 (2009), 19–44. For Europe, see, among others, Nicola Tranfaglia, Un passato scomodo. Fascismo e postfascismo (Bari: Laterza, 1999);
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Stan Wiechnik
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So, with the idea that there is a neo-fascism that can exist in a parliamentary system without complete dictatorial control, should it be called something else?

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