Global Histories of Fascism

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March 19, 2024 | This is the final of three webinars in advance of the Georgetown Global Dialogues (GGD). In conversations with GGD fellows and other leading thinkers, Pankaj Mishra is exploring some of the questions we will be addressing on campus in April in their wider historical context.
The rise of autocracies around the world and threats to existing democracies-including the United States-raise fresh questions about the history of fascism and its relevance today. New variants of the toxic combination of authoritarianism and nationalism that flourished between the world wars could be poised for a broad comeback across the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Africa-a hardly imaginable prospect only a decade ago.
What is the relationship between the global history of fascism and threats to democracy today? Is fascism inseparable from political and economic modernity, fears of underdevelopment and decline, and so doomed to perpetually return? What are the lessons to be drawn from its periodic outbreaks? Verónica Gago, Naomi Klein, and Kohei Saito will reflect on these questions in an online conversation moderated by Pankaj Mishra.
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