The Blackshirted Utopians

By coining the word 'Utopia', Thomas More bequeathed to scholarship the means to describe the gaze of desire which looks at life as it is and then projects a picture of how it could be, resolved of its defects. This was a vision which was outopia, no-where in reality but potentially a powerful spur to action because it suggested what could be. More's island was also an eutopia, a good place. In contrast, fascism is synonymous with the dystopian hallmarks of oppression and misery. Nonetheless, it is the contention of this article that examining the British Union of Fascists (1932-40) as a utopian movement provides a valid and valuable insight into the ideology and motivations of Blackshirts

Astrobiology · Physics · History · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Philosophy

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• Corporatism in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

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• Commentary

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• Fascism and Science Fiction

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• The Fasces and the Saltire

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• The Primacy of Culture

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• Uk

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