scholarly journals Los trotskistas bajo el terror nazi. Una historia de la IV Internacional durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Velia Luparello ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Benito Mussolini ◽  
Leon Trotsky

El estudio de los orígenes y primeros años de la IV Internacional adquiere una especial relevancia al considerarlos como parte del proceso de construcción y de crítica de las herramientas organizativas y políticas de la clase trabajadora que continúa hasta la actualidad. Desde sus orígenes, la IV Internacional estuvo marcada por las disputas políticas en el seno de la Internacional Comunista, por los primeros posicionamientos como Oposición de Izquierda, por la persecución de los simpatizantes trotskistas y por el asesinato de León Trotsky. Así, este libro se apoya en la necesidad y en la importancia de investigar la historia de las Internacionales Socialistas en clave de una historia internacional del socialismo, en la medida en que las expresiones locales y regionales de dicha corriente pueden comprenderse de manera integral a través de análisis comparativos y transnacionales. Los trotskistas bajo el terror nazi. Una historia de la IV Internacional durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, desarrolla un análisis histórico de la perspectiva política llevada a cabo por la IV Internacional en Europa durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial mediante el estudio comparativo de las secciones francesa, norteamericana, belga y británica. Tomando como uno de los ejes centrales el resurgimiento de la discusión sobre la cuestión nacional en Europa, se observa cómo la crisis de la IV Internacional no comenzó con el debate sobre el entrismo en 1953 sino diez años antes, debido a las dificultades de la organización para adaptarse al nuevo escenario europeo inaugurado a mediados de 1943 con la deposición de Benito Mussolini y el comienzo de la “contrarrevolución democrático-burguesa” a partir de la intervención de Estados Unidos durante los últimos años del conflicto bélico.

Wolfgang and Petra Lubitz, eds., Trotsky Bibliography: An International Classified List of Publications about Leon Trotsky and Trotskyism 1905–1998. Third completely revised and enlarged edition. Vols. 1–2. Munich: K. G. Saur, 1999. 840 pp. DM 368 cloth.

2001 ◽  
Vol 60 ◽  
pp. 232-233
Author(s):  
Gerd Callesen
Keyword(s):  
The Subject ◽  
Leon Trotsky ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Political Value ◽  
Broad Approach

This bibliography is quite an impressive effort. It is extensive, thorough, structurally sound, and contains excellent indexes. In short, it is a truly useful tool for anyone who, for scholarly or political reasons, takes an interest in Trotsky and Trotskyism. Of course, the definition of Trotskyism is somewhat blurred; too many people have used the concept subjectively, either with positive or negative connotations, for it to signify anything unambiguous. The Lubitzes have done their utmost to remedy this state of affairs by disregarding sectarian restraints and by choosing a broad approach to the subject; they have even gone to the extreme of including some anti-Trotskyist effusions of no real scholarly or current political value.

Women, Power & the Decline of the West: Richard Sherwin’s Ethical Wisdom, Krzysztof Koslowski’s Tricolor-Red, & Machiavelli’s Mandragola

Pólemos ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 185-201
Author(s):  
Andrew Majeske
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Benito Mussolini ◽  
Western Literature ◽  
As You Like It ◽  
Moral Crisis

Abstract This essay initially identifies and explores issues relating to relativity and relativism in cultural and political matters. It highlights the problematic character of the prime virtue that liberals claim to be the product of this relativistic outlook, tolerance, and points out that relativism equally supports illiberal agendas, as emphasized by Benito Mussolini. The essay then examines Shakespeare’s profound treatment of relativity in his As You Like It, focusing especially upon Rosalind and Orlando’s riddle exchange in Act 3, Scene 2, and the related sequencing of Orlando’s poems. In closing, the essay attempts to show how the West could benefit from revisiting great works of Western literature such as As You Like It, as it grapples with its moral crisis, works which plumbed the depths of the very problems we face today. But we will only garner from these texts the lessons we truly need to learn if we set aside, if only provisionally, the historicist assumptions which have blinded us to the contemporary pertinence and value of an older wisdom which by all appearances is more profound than our own.

scholarly journals Mussolini Predicted a Fascist Century: How Wrong Was He?

Fascism ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Benito Mussolini ◽  
New Developments ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right ◽  
Wide Community

In the entry on ‘Fascism’ published in 1932 in the Enciclopedia Italiana, Benito Mussolini made a prediction. There were, he claimed, good reasons to think that the twentieth century would be a century of ‘authority’, the ‘right’: a fascist century (un secolo fascista). However, after 1945 the many attempts by fascists to perpetuate the dreams of the 1930s have come to naught. Whatever impact they have had at a local level, and however profound the delusion that fascists form a world-wide community of like-minded ultranationalists and racists revolutionaries on the brink of ‘breaking through’, as a factor in the shaping of the modern world, their fascism is clearly a spent force. But history is a kaleidoscope of perspectives that dynamically shift as major new developments force us to rewrite the narrative we impose on it. What if we take Mussolini’s secolo to mean not the twentieth century, but the ‘hundred years since the foundation of Fascism’? Then the story we are telling ourselves changes radically.

Benito Mussolini: Memoirs 1942–3 with Documents Relating to the Period

1950 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-411
Author(s):  
M. H. H. Macartney
Keyword(s):  
Benito Mussolini

The Conflation of Race and Propaganda in the Mobilization of Africans for the Second World War

2021 ◽  
pp. 002190962110549
Author(s):  
Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Second World War ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
World War ◽  
Benito Mussolini ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
The Great War ◽  
Second World

The primary focus here is to accentuate the competing roles of race and propaganda in the enlistment of Africans and African Americans for the Second World War. Among other things, the discussion captures on the interwar years and emphasizes the subtleties of African American Pan-Africanist discourses as a counterweight to Black oppression encountered in the racialized spaces of Jim Crow America, colonized Africa, and the pugnacious infraction that was the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935–1936. Tying up the implications of these events into the broader global politics of 1939–1945 establishes the background in which the Allied Powers sought after Black people’s support in the war against the Axis Powers. Recalling that Italy’s fascist leader Benito Mussolini attacked Ethiopia in 1935 with poisonous gas while the League of Nations refused to act, points to the barefaced conflation of race and propaganda in the Great War and the centrality of African and African Diaspora exertions in the conflict.

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