Theories of Antifascism in the Interwar Mediterranean Part II

The current proliferation of authoritarianism across both core and periphery is one political articulation the crisis capitalist world-system. Authoritarianism similarly proliferated in previous periods crisis, 1970s 1980s peripheries, 1930s 1940s core. In Part I this essay, detail how world-systems analysts have long been attuned to describing analyzing chaotic moments between systemic cycles hegemony, but less attention has given rise these phases. multiple crises hegemonic transition engenders an ideological contestation Fascism Communism revealing limitations Liberalism, foundational ideology such breakdown, anarchists developed autonomous strategies resisting authoritarian rule at point production (the worker-occupied self-managed workplace) leisure zone infoshop or café as resources interventions joint struggle against capitalism authoritarianism. These theories are important recover for contemporary fight a resurgent world-system conjuncture.