Los nuevos fascismos

How does evil originate and how is it normalized by social groups, large or small, under the guise of a just political cause? This is just one of the many questions that motivate this illuminating book. To unravel the political, cultural, and psychological causes of resentment and its contemporary evolution, Alberto González Pascual analyzes Trumpism and Islamofascism, as well as the persistence of nationalism, racism, and anti-Semitism in our time. He revisits the propaganda of Mussolini and Hitler, and their resurrected echoes that resonate in the present. He delves into the ambivalent effects of the Auschwitz trial and the traits of the virus that hatched during the Balkan War. And he openly discovers the archaic bond that family structures produce not only on the person's psyche, but also on the political impulses that he adopts due to her influence and with which he later functions in the different spheres of society. Fascism is in top form. It is not a ghost from the past, but an eternal ghost. It is a paradox that the technology that fueled the first great industrial revolution was the means by which several million human beings were herded from all corners of Europe into extermination camps like Auschwitz during World War II. Steven Spielberg used the opening frames of Schindler's List to evoke that madness: the rationality of technique and the power of historical progress put at the service of evil.