Snidely Dossnik wrote>...Western academic...
So I trust you'll burn that diploma from UCSD, where I'm guessing you graduated from since you've mentioned Lukacs and technology scholar Andrew Feenberg?
Griffin, if you had any knowledge of fascism studies, is one of the top dozen or so in the field. Only person w/ two pieces in, "The Fascism Reader, " edited by Aristotle A. Kallis, "Routledge, 2003.
"Eastern" academics w/ a good rep. on fascism, are few and far between, given the "StaMoCap, " and Dimitov derived dogmatisms of the GDR. Though, even in the Comintern, as witness Togliatti, and those purged from it such as August Thalheimer, who theorized on Bonapartism, there were alternative analyses of fascism and nazism. Off the top of my head only, Hungarian Milhaly Vajda, merits attn, " Fascism as a mass movement. St. Martin's Press, New York. 1976.
See, "Marxists In The Face of Fascism, " ed. by David Beetham, Larry Ceplair, "Under the shadow of war : Fascism, anti-Fascism, and Marxists, 1918-1939, " Columbia Univ. Press, 1987. On the vagries of GDR anti- fascism, see, "Divided Memory : The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys, " by Jeffrey Herf, Harvard Univ. Press. More on far-right, anti-NWO, anti- "globalist" ideologues and activists, http://www.iisg.nl/research/antiglob.html Challenges to the new world order Anti-globalism and counter-globalism Kevin Coogan (Autonomedia/New York): Against NATO and the UN: the far right roots of the first postwar 'anti-globalist' movement in America and England. (30 pp, 142 Kb, word document). Afternoon session: Anti-and counter-globalist tendencies among the extreme right (chair: Erik van Ree)
Harvey Simmons (York University, Toronto): The French and European extreme right and globalization (44 pp, 131 Kb, word document). Discussant: Meindert Fennema (University of Amsterdam) [13.30-14.30]
Cas Mudde (University of Antwerp): Globalisation and the extreme right backlash (21 pp, 72 Kb, word document). Discussant: René Gabriels [14.30-15.30]
Leonard Weinberg/Jeffrey Kaplan (University of Nevada Reno/University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh): Right-wing extremism in the western world and the question of globalism (16 pp, 59 Kb, word document). Dicussant: Matthew Feldman [15.30-16.30]