New technologies evangelized the coming of a new era in the context of human communication. However, neo-luddites soon started to express their scepticism in regards the impact of this type of communication on human relations. For example, impersonalization and de-humanization are often debated as symptoms of online communication in comparison to face to face interaction (Jonscher, 1999). The a...

W hat would motivate british neo-nazi skinheads to invade a public library and beat up a reading group of retired pakistani immigrants? and what would motivate half a million british citizens to vote for extreme right-wing parties whose rhetoric fuels such behavior? trilling traces the rise of the radical right in the united kingdom and condemns establishment figures for not taking it more seri...

This article is an essay that describes how the ideology underpinning neo-fascism penetrating education, analyses its profoundly reactionary and radically neo-liberal agenda, as well main mechanisms of infiltration into classrooms education system. But it also considers to combat rise progressive «normalisation» by part society from school, before this plague spreads even further, Camus would s...

Abstract This paper explores the link between infrastructures built by autocratic regimes and political values in wake of transition to democracy long run. In Fascist Italy (1922–43), Mussolini founded 147 “New Towns” ( Città di Fondazione ). Exploring municipality-level data before after their construction, I document (1) that New Towns enhanced local electoral support for Party (2) effect per...

This seminal article analyses the current structural crisis and instability in an ever more polarised world in relation to earlier systemic crises that were resolved through fascism or through Fordist-Keynesian ‘class compromise’ (the 1930s) and the emergence of capitalist globalisation (the 1970s). The authors identify three basic responses to the crisis: popular insurgency from below; reformi...

Over the past months the French media reported extensively about the "Nouvelle Droite" ("New Right") and "National Bolshevism" ideology becoming a major force in post -1991 Russia. Intense concern about a Russian variety of neo-fascism is also expressed elsewhere. Probably the most extensive study on that subject is Walter Laqueur's 1993 book, The Rise of Russian Fascism. Certainly Nouvelle Dro...