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• A Brief History of the Spanish Civil War

  By Alfonso Casal on March 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The Spanish Civil War (1936 – 1939) has come to symbolize the clash between the ideologies of liberalism, socialism and communism versus conservatism, traditionalism and fascism. Spain, at the dawn of the 20th century, was caught in a crisis of… Read More ›

• Fascism: Origins and Ideology

  By Alfonso Casal on February 1, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  Post War Chaos The social and political upheaval that accompanied the end of World War I fused the various attitudes (elitism, racism, irrationalism, anti-modernism) that characterized the radical right of the early years of the century into a cohesive political… Read More ›

• The Deep Roots of Reaction: the Radical Right

  By Alfonso Casal on January 28, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  The triumphant liberal capitalism of the 19th century faced two challenges by the close of the 1800s, the first, socialism, was its direct dialectical antithesis and would culminate in the development of the science of Marxism-Leninism.  The other, which claimed… Read More ›