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Back to the '30s? : recurring crises of capitalism, liberalism and democracy / Jeremy Rayner, Susan Falls, George Souvlis, Taylor C. Nelms, editors.

The essays in this volume address the question: what does it mean to understand the contemporary moment in light of the 1930s? In the aftermath of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and facing a dramatic rise of right wing, authoritarian politics across the globe, the events of th...

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Other Authors: Rayner, Jeremy (Professor) (Editor), Falls, Susan (Editor), Souvlis, George, 1985- (Editor), Nelms, Taylor C. (Editor)
Other title:Back to the 1930s?
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020]
Subjects:
Two thousand twenty, A.D.
Nineteen thirties.
Civilization, Modern > 21st century.
Civilization, Modern.
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1 Introduction: Back to the 30s?
  • Comparative Structures: Homogeneity, Continuity, Repetition
  • The Great Depression and the Great Recession
  • Responding to the Great Recession: Historical Memory and Political Economy
  • Explaining the Recurrence of Crisis: Finance and Debt, Innovation and Inequality
  • Writing the History of Capitalism: Waves, Cycles, and Stages
  • Looking Ahead: Another Surge on the Horizon?
  • The Rise of "Populism" and Authoritarian Nationalism.
  • Politics and Economy in the Emergence of Right-Wing Authoritarianism
  • Debating the Appeal of Authoritarianism: The Psychological Dynamics of Right-Wing Authoritarianism
  • Identifying the Limits of Liberalism: Capitalist Liberal Democracy's Internal Contradictions
  • The Organization of the Book
  • References
  • Part I Crises of Capital and Hegemonic Transitions
  • 2 The Spectre of the 1930s
  • References
  • 3 Reading Contemporary Latin America in the Light of the 1930s: Cycles of Accumulation and the Politics of Passive Revolution
  • Financial Expansion, Systemic Chaos and Passive Revolution.
  • The Early Twentieth Century and the Crisis of the Liberal Order
  • The "Golden Age" of Capitalism (and Socialism) 1945-1975
  • Neoliberalism and Post: The Return of Financialization
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 4 Organic Crisis and Counter-Hegemonic Responses in the Interwar Era and the Era of Memoranda in Greece
  • Intra-Bourgeois Struggles and the Metaxas Dictatorship
  • Greece in the 2010s: Hegemonic Instability, Emergent Fascism, and the Rise of the Left
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 The State of Capitalism and the Rise of the Right in the 1930s and Today: Hungary as a Case Study.
  • The Social Democratic Left and the Great Depression
  • How Neoliberalism Conquered the Left
  • Hungary After the 1989 Political Transition
  • Orbán's Hungary: Back to the Thirties
  • Bibliography
  • 6 The New Great Transformation: The Origins of Neo-Populism in Light of Systemic Cycles of Accumulation
  • Crisis of What? World-Systemic Cycles of Accumulation
  • Where Are We Now? When Are We Here?
  • The New Great Transformation and the Farce of Historic Tragedy
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Part II Authoritarianism, Populism, and the Limits of Liberal Democracy.
  • 7 Second Time as Farce? Authoritarian Liberalism in Historical Perspective
  • Weimar: Back to the Future
  • Postwar: A Misdiagnosis?
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • 8 A Second Foundation? Constitution, Nation-Building, and the Deepening of Authoritarianism in Turkey
  • Old-New Turkey?
  • Two Foundations and Their Constitutions
  • The Creation of an Old-New Enemy of the State After the June 2015 Elections
  • The Politics of Turkishness and Necropower
  • Kurds in Old-New Turkey: Discriminated, Displaced, Dispossessed
  • Conclusion
  • References.

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