Fascism Old and New: American Politics at the Crossroads

ISBN-13: 9781138485341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Carl Boggs

Opis

A very timely scholarly enterprise, this book will be of interest to students of contemporary radical politics, fascism more broadly, US political history, ideologies and party politics.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction  1. Power in Capitalist Society  2. Fascism in History  3. The Revival of Authoritarian Politics   4. The Permanent Warfare State  5. Fascism of a New Type?  Afterword: Mussolini and America  Postscript 1: The Surveillance Society  Postscript 2: Donald Trump and Fascism

O autorze

Carl Boggs is Professor of Social Sciences at National University in Los Angeles. After receiving his Ph.D. in political science from U.C., Berkeley, he has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Carleton University in Ottawa, UCLA, USC, and Antioch University, Los Angeles. In 2007 he was recipient of the Charles McCoy Career Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association. While at National University he has received numerous awards, including Scholar of the Year and three Professoriates for outstanding faculty contributions. He has authored more than twenty books, written more than three hundred articles and has had three radio programs at KPFK in Los Angeles. He is on the editorial board of several journals, including Theory and Society, where he is book-review editor, and New Political Science. He writes regularly for the journal CounterPunch, founded by Alexander Cockburn.