Capital, Race and Space, Volume II: The Far Right from Post-Fascism to Trumpism
By (Author) Richard Saull
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
11th September 2024
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Sociology
Historical geography
320.533091812
Paperback
432
Width 152mm, Height 228mm
In this second volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers an international historical sociology of the Western far-right from the end of World War II to its contemporary manifestations in Trumpism and Brexit.
Focusing on its international causal dimensions, Saull draws on the theory of uneven and combined development to provide a distinct and original explanation of the evolution and mutations of the 'post-fascist' far-right.
Despite the transformed geopolitical context of capitalist development after 1945 with decolonization and the end inter-imperial rivalry the far-right continued to be intimately connected to the consolidation of the anti-communist liberal order. Thereafter, the far-right also formed an important, if contradictory, element within the neoliberal historical bloc that emerged in the 1980s and has been the main ideo-political beneficiary of the 2007-8 neoliberal crisis.
Richard Saull is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on the history and politics of the far-right and is co-editor of The Longue Dure of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology.