Understanding Political Conversion and Mimetic Rivalry
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the French nouvelle droite under its doyen Alain de Benoist claimed that it had made a political ‘conversion’ from the revolutionary Right (or conservative revolutionary) milieu to ‘democracy’ and that it had created a ‘post‐fascist’ political synthesis. The paper...
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Totalitarian movements and political religions
Year: 2009, Volume: 10, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 241-264 |
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