Richard Saull is Reader in International Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. He has published widely on the history and politics of the far-right and is co-editor of The Longue Durée of the Far-Right: An International Historical Sociology.

In this first volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers an international historical sociology of the European far-right from its origins in the 1848 revolutions to fascism.

Providing a distinct and original explanation of the evolution and mutations of the far-right, Saull emphasizes its international causal dimensions through the prism of uneven and combined development.

Focusing on the twin (political and economic) transformations that dominated the second half of the nineteenth century, the book discusses the connections between class, race, and geography in the evolution of far-right movements and how the crises in the development of a liberal world order were central to the advance of the far-right ultimately helping to produce fascism.

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Prologue

Introduction

1 Theorizing the Far-Right over the Longue Durée
 1 Situating the Study of the Far-Right

 2 Marxist Theorizations of the Far-Right
 2.1 Capitalism, Crisis and Fascism

 2.2 The Social Basis of Fascism

 2.3 Bonapartism and the Fascist State

 3 An Alternative Theoretical Framework – Capital, Race and Space

 4 Uneven and Combined Development and the Pathologies of Capital

 5 The International-Geopolitical Determinants of the Far-Right

 6 The Contradictions of Liberalism and Liberal Orders

 7 Race: Master Signifier of the Far-Right

 8 Conclusions

2 The Politics of the 1848 Revolutions and the Origins of the Far-Right
 1 Historicizing the 1848 Revolutions and the Contradictions of Liberal Modernity over the Longue Durée

 2 The Politics of the Ancien Régime Right before 1848

 3 The Politics of the 1848 Revolutions and the Emergence of the Far-Right

 4 The Emergence of Bonapartism as a Model Far-Right State

 5 Conclusions

3 The Rise of the Far-Right
 1 Capitalist Imperialism and Geopolitics in the Rise of the European Far-Right

 2 Race and Racialized Politics in the Developing Liberal International Order

 3 Germany: from Elite to Subaltern Far-Right

 4 The Alldeutscher Verband

 5 Bund der Landwirte

 6 France: the Rise of a ‘Revolutionary’ Right Prefiguring Fascism

 7 Britain: Hegemonic Decline and the Structural Limits on the Rise of the Far-Right

 8 Conclusions

4 Fascism: ‘Revolution’ of the Right
 1 Framing Fascism as a Form of Far-Right

 2 The Crisis of the Bourgeois State and the Rise of Fascism
 2.1 Italy: the Crisis of Liberal Hegemony and the Revolutionary Origins of Fascism

 2.2 Germany: Capitalist Crisis and the International Political-Economic Contradictions of the Weimar Republic

 2.3 The Social Bases of Fascism

 2.4 The Political Character of Fascism

 3 The Political Economy of the Fascist State
 3.1 Organization of the Economy

 3.2 A Sui Generis Capitalist War Economy

 3.3 Nazi Imperialism: a Provisional and Bifurcated System

 4 Liberal Order and the Rise of Fascism

 5 Conclusions

References

Index