Oswald Mosley’s The Greater Britain as an Example of Fascism par excellence
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Oswald Mosley, “Greater Britain, fascism, totalitarianismAbstract
The aim of this article is to analyze Oswald Mosley’s manifesto The Greater Britain as an example of fascism par excellence. The analysis highlights the key constitutive features of fascism, including its totalitarian nature, the synthesis of Gnostic nationalism with non-Marxist socialism and syndicalism, and the role of violence and war within the doctrine’s framework. As indicated, violence and war result from the implementation of fascist doctrine in action but are not constitutive features of fascism. Violence, war, and the exclusion of certain groups are outcomes of implementing a broad spectrum of autocratic thought – from authoritarian to totalitarian, and from left-wing to right-wing. Therefore, in contemporary studies on populism and autocracy, it would be overly simplistic to define fascization or post-fascism based solely on exclusion, war, and political violence, without considering the constitutive features of fascism itself.
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