CARL BOGGS
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    • THE SOCIALIST TRADITION: FROM CRISIS TO DECLINE
    • INTELLECTUALS AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY ​
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FASCISM OLD AND NEW: AMERICAN POLITICS AT THE CROSSROADS by Carl Boggs  ​

Routledge, 2018
Deep historical trends suggest the U.S. could be moving toward a distinctly novel form of fascism, embracing elements of the historical phenomenon as it appeared in such countries as Italy, Germany, Japan, and Spain, while also departing in significant ways.  A twenty-first century fascism would hardly be revolutionary or totalitarian, involving (for the U.S.) no dramatic break with the past as it would build on firmaments of entrenched power going back to World War II.  In this book, the author explores new political and ideological terrain in considering prospects for a gradual development of fascism in modern American society.  He persuasively argues that current fascistic trends, perhaps most visible in the U.S., reveal a closer affinity with Mussolini’s Italy (corporate state) than with the more extreme Nazi German case of tyranny and genocide.
 
“Carl Boggs’ Fascism Old and New systematically explores the defining features of European and Japanese fascisms that emerged between the two World Wars and examines the extent to which new configurations of economic, political, military, and cultural power constitute the potential for fascism in contemporary American society. Boggs’ analysis suggests that highly capitalist and militaristic societies like the U.S. could be susceptible to fascist trajectories.” 
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Douglas Kellner                                                                                                                     
Author of Cinema Wars and many other books
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“In this book Carl Boggs has produced a brilliantly layered and comprehensive commentary on America’s slide into fascism that is historically illuminating, theoretically novel, and enormously informative in its scope and development.”
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Henry Giroux                                                                                                                                                 
Author of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism
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 “While most writers fixate on Donald Trump and Twitter, Carl Boggs digs deeper into the political and social realities of America today.  For Boggs, the danger of fascism is not one rogue politician, but is rooted in U.S. history and the growing combined power of corporations, the state and militarism.  Everyone concerned about the future of America, and indeed the world, needs to read this book.”  
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Jerry Harris                                                                                                                          
​National Secretary, Global Studies Association
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.” 
― Isaac Asimov
  • HOME
  • BOOKS
    • FUGITIVE POLITICS: THE STRUGGLE FOR ECOLOGICAL SANITY
    • FACING CATASTROPHE: FOOD, POLITICS, AND THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS
    • FASCISM OLD AND NEW: AMERICAN POLITICS AT THE CROSSROADS
    • ORIGINS OF THE WARFARE STATE: WORLD WAR II AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICAN POLITICS
    • DRUGS, POWER, AND POLITICS: NARCO WARS, BIG PHARMA, AND THE SUBVERSION OF DEMOCRACY
    • ECOLOGY AND REVOLUTION: GLOBAL CRISIS AND THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE
    • PHANTOM DEMOCRACY: CORPORATE INTERESTS AND POLITICAL POWER IN AMERICA
    • EMPIRE VERSUS DEMOCRACY: THE TRIUMPH OF CORPORATE AND MILITARY POWER
    • THE CRIMES OF EMPIRE: ROGUE SUPERPOWER AND WORLD DOMINATION
    • THE HOLLYWOOD WAR MACHINE: U.S. MILITARISM AND POPULAR CULTURE
    • IMPERIAL DELUSIONS: AMERICAN MILITARISM AND ENDLESS WAR
    • A WORLD IN CHAOS: SOCIAL CRISIS AND THE RISE OF POSTMODERN CINEMA
    • MASTERS OF WAR: MILITARISM AND BLOWBACK IN THE ERA OF AMERICAN EMPIRE
    • THE END OF POLITICS: CORPORATE POWER AND THE DECLINE OF THE PUBLIC SPHERE
    • THE SOCIALIST TRADITION: FROM CRISIS TO DECLINE
    • INTELLECTUALS AND THE CRISIS OF MODERNITY ​
    • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND POLITICAL POWER: EMERGING FORMS OF RADICALISM IN THE WEST
    • THE TWO REVOLUTIONS: GRAMSCI AND THE DILEMMAS OF WESTERN MARXISM
    • THE IMPASSE OF EUROPEAN COMMUNISM
    • THE POLITICS OF EUROCOMMUNISM: SOCIALISM IN TRANSITION
    • GRAMSCI'S MARXISM
  • ARTICLES
    • COUNTERPUNCH
    • FAST CAPITALISM
    • NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE
    • DEMOCRACY AND NATURE
  • GUEST AUTHORS
    • PETER MCLAREN
  • BLOG
    • THE GREAT SOCIALIST MIRAGE
    • JANUARY SIXTH AS GODSEND
    • Bill MCKIBBEN, MARK BITTMAN, AND THE FOOD CATASTROPHE
    • THE TORN LEGACY OF FRANK WILKINSON
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