The Neo-Fascist State: Notes on the Pathology of Power in the Third World
Author(s)
Ahmed, Eqbal
Abstract
Through the 1960s and 1970s, while our attention was focused on the Indo-Chinese War, an ominous development was occurring in the Third World. These two decades witnessed the emergence and/or maturing of regimes which one may describe, for lack of a better term, as neo-fascist. The author then describes the characteristics of a neo-fascist state such as use of organized terror, a repressive terrorist state apparatus; state control over the economy and labor; and its origins in petit bourgeois and propertied classes. The article then explores the roots of neo-fascism in the Third World.
