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The New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right,[1] which examines various theories of European fascism historically, is the second part (History in the Present) in a series. It is more interesting than the first (The Present as History), which analyzes the phenomenon of right-wing populism in contemporary Europe (which Traverso calls “postfascism”). Traverso is a historian, and so his knowledge and background as a historian are expertly applied to an analysis of fascism as a historical phenomenon. In contrast, his analysis of the phenomenon of right-wing populism in contemporary Europe is in the realm of the mediocre radical or liberal leftists.
March 5, 2021
Imprecor[1], the French-language journal of the Fourth International, is an excellent piece overall. However, I would like to point out that his statement about Russian Marxism includes a couple of misunderstandings.
Was Plekhanov a mechanical economist?
Michael Löwy criticizes Russian Marxism s abandonment of late Karl Marx s theory of the future Russian revolution (as expressed in the preface to the Russian edition of the
Communist Manifesto), as follows:
Marx and [Friedrich] Engels had not hesitated to suggest, in their preface to the Russian edition of the
Communist Manifesto (1882), that If the Russian Revolution becomes the signal for a proletarian revolution in the West, so that both complement each other, the present Russian common ownership of land may serve as the starting point for a communist development . However, after their deaths, this perspective on the Russian revolution, which raised the suspicion that it would resemble the vision of