Analysing Fascist Discourse

For the past 80 years, there has been variability and disagreement about how to classify or define fascism. Moreover, these disagreements have themselves shifted, so the arguments of the 1930s were different to those of the 1960s, different again to the debates now, and shaped in part by the histories, debates and current political realities in different national contexts. Through discourse analysis of text and talk in examples of fascism in Europe in the twentieth century and through to today, this book reflects the range of these debates, and argues that a more context-sensitive definition of fascism is required, in contrast to theorists searching for a one-size fits all fascist minimum.