2022-07-15 03:06:06
Providing a conceptualization to extremist political movements founded upon "world-historic" populations and vanguard party organizations, the book sets out a new path in investigating the intellectual and historical influences that created extremist politics, the totalitarian movements and regimes of the 20th century, and a framework for interpreting current extremism. Expanding its view across the turbulent intellectual currents of the 19th century, Gray illustrates how these ideas shaped the shared ideational and organizational structures that would develop into Leninism, Fascism, NS, etc. in the early 20th century. Moving beyond WWII, it explicates how vanguardism did not vanish with the war’s conclusion but was modified throughout the period of national liberation movements and Western extremist groups over the ensuing decades.
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