

Fascism is a particular political response to the challenges with which the management of capitalist society may be confronted in specific circumstances. Fascism is not synonymous with an authoritarian police regime that rejects the uncertainties of parliamentary electoral democracy.

It is not by chance that the very title of this contribution links the return of fascism on the political scene with the crisis of contemporary capitalism. This article was translated from the French by James Membrez. His books published by Monthly Review Press include The Liberal Virus, The World We Wish to See, The Law of Worldwide Value, and, most recently, The Implosion of Contemporary Capitalism. Samir Amin is director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal.
