Palingenetic ultranationalism

Palingenesis ( " new birth " from Greek palin, " again ", and génesis " formation, creation, birth"; Palingenesis English ) is a term of various theories of fascism for a central element of fascism.

Term

Emilio Gentile took the term from theology, first in his work Le Origini dell'Ideologia Fascista ( 1918-25 ). He understood it in the sense of today's " convergence theory " designated. Roger Griffin summed up the concept sharper than vision of fascism, which targets " rebirth " of the " decadent society " through total alignment on a glorified leader in the. This he saw as " mythic core of fascist ideology."

Analysis of fascism

In fascist ideologemes this is the language of a "revolutionary new birth " of "community" in a "new order" and in a "new era ". Thus, a ( counter - ) revolutionary aspiration of a utopian Ultra - nationalism is meant. Striking is Palingenesis for a particular type of cultural pessimism:

Roger Griffin sees these efforts as ideal-typical feature of all fascist ideologies, both in Nazism, in the thinkers of the conservative revolution and the right intellectuals and groups of the New Right as Armin Mohler and Alain de Benoist.

Of 1991, Griffin in The Nature of Fascism the proposal, fascism ideally - in the sense of Max Weber ideal type - to define. After that fascism could be described as " genre of political ideology whose mythic core is in its manifold permutations of a form of populist ultra-nationalism palingenetic ". According to Griffin defines fascism as a " palingenetischer ultra - nationalism." Griffin thus rejects a definition of fascism, which is limited to the era of National Socialism and pushed in the international research more controversial debate on.

With the generic definition of fascism to its ideological core element that treats fascism as an ideology like other ideologies, Griffin aims to follow the " insights into the changes of international fascism after 1945". He is distinguished from fascism definitions that relate to a historical era from:

Griffin refers in this definition of fascism on the so- called "new consensus " in the research on fascism, as formulated by Matthew Lyons: " Fascism is a form of right-wing ideology, as an organic community that transcends all other loyalties, the nation or race glorified. It emphasizes a myth of national or racial rebirth after a period of decline or decay. "