Tag: Fascism
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The Forgotten Stance: A Brief History of Spanish Non-Belligerence in World War Two
Owen James explores how Spain narrowly avoided World War II, debunking the myth of Franco’s “astute caution”. The article highlights the failed Hendaye meeting, where excessive imperial demands clashed with Hitler’s goals, and the Blue Division’s anti-communist crusade, proving Spanish non-belligerence was a result of necessity, not design.
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The Fight For Memory: The Mass Graves That Haunt Spain
Arianna North Castell shows how mass graves in Spain reveal long-hidden victims of Franco’s regime.
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The Ascent of Marxist Proselytism
Western Europe was radically altered by the events, and political ideologies, of the Second World War. Emilio Luppino traces the emergence of Marxist political groups in post-war German and Italian politics.
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Italian Americans and their Restitutor Orbis
Italian immigration to the United States was high in the nineteenth century, and in the twentieth century when Mussolini came to power, their status between cultures became political. Emilio Luppino takes a look at Italian Americans’ relationship with Mussolini and Italy throughout his reign.
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‘All life is a service’: The Contested Erotics of Fascism from Foucault to Frost
The sexualisation of fascist aesthetics has received a great deal of critical and philosophical analysis. Georgia Smith examines this discourse and the convergence of eroticism and fascism.
Retrospect Journal 