Learning from the enemy
an intellectual history of Antifascism in interwar Europe
- ISBN: 9781804292273
- Editorial: Verso Books
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 224
- Idiomas: Inglés
When democracy is under threat from authoritarianism, models of resistance must come to the fore. Giustizia e Libert�, founded by the Italian thinker and activist Carlo Rosselli in 1929, is one intriguing historical example. Operating both in exile and as part of a clandestine network at home, the organization fought against fascism and Nazism, while criticizing Stalinism. To defeat the enemy, the group aimed to go beyond the Marxist notion of class and to assert fresh concepts of nationhood and Europe. The book traces the group's trajectories and debates and follows its legacy to the present.
Introduction
Which Antifascism?
Learning from the Enemy
Chapter 1: Antifascism as an Experiment
Understanding Fascism Means Fighting Fascism
Group Picture: Between Giolitti and Mussolini
Blending Liberalism, Democracy, and Socialism
The Turtle Conspiracy
In the Shadow of Piero (But Not Only)
Chapter 2: Exile in Paris as a Laboratory
Fascism: "The Autobiography of a Nation", or of Europe? Crisis of Democracy and of the Nation-State
Class Politics, Revolutionary Myths, Soviet Dictatorship
"Non-Conformist" Strategies of Imitation and Competition
Crisis of Civilization
Chapter 3: Time for Action?
A 'European Civil War'
'Which Italy?'
'Conspiracy in Broad Daylight´ (Turin)
Different Time Frames
Spain: An International Battleground
Chapter 4: Shades of Socialism
Rosselli´s Legacy: What Form of Socialism in an Age of Tyranny?
Nations, Europes, and Empires
Exploring the World (from a Prison Cell in Rome)
In the Footsteps of Heretics and Utopians Chapter 5: A Posthumous (and Hidden) Vitality
From the Fall of Paris to the Resistance
The Knight and the Castle
