{"product_id":"fascism-essays-on-europe-and-india-9789383968121","title":"Fascism: Essays on Europe and India","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jairus Banaji\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Three Essays Collective\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Three Essays Collective\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe victory of fascism in Europe between the wars was an incalculable human catastrophe. This collection of essays contains the first-ever English translation of Arthur Rosenberg's fascinating analysis of the emergence of fascism in Europe, as well as a short introduction to the essay that explains its significance, and then four contributions that extend the framework to India - dealing in turn with Savarkar and the politics of the Hindu Mahasabha (Srinivasan), communalism as the Indian version of fascism and its roots in the majoritarian ideologies of the nation-state (Simeon), and the fascism of the Sangh Parivar as this had emerged by the early '90s when concerted communal mobilisations unleashed a spate of violence, foreshadowing the even more horrific events of 2002 (Sumit Sarkar). Unlike most left-wing theories of fascism, Rosenberg's work made the mass base of fascism central to its political success. But what does it mean for fascism to have a \"mass base\"? And how does it construct one? The concluding chapter explores the notion of \"passive complicity\", using ideas developed by Jean-Paul Sartre in his major work Critique of Dialectical Reason, and then turns to a characterisation of the Extreme Right in India by looking at the strategies at work in the subversion of Indian democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Three Essays Collective","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48007250346135,"sku":"9789383968121","price":600.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789383968121.webp?v=1783752795","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/fascism-essays-on-europe-and-india-9789383968121","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}