The Rise of Counterrevolutionary Anti-Fascism in the United States from the Munich Conference to the Fall of France
In: Dictatorships & democracies: journal of history and culture, S. 37-68
ISSN: 2564-8829
Anti-fascism makes working or fighting against fscism the top priority, and two basic types of anti-fascism emerged in Europe and North America from 1936 to 1945. The first was revolutionary; the second was conservative and even counterrevolutionary. From the Munich Agreement to the fall of France, and in the face of strong isolationist opposition, US counterrevolutionary anti-fascists—who are usually labeled "interventionists" in the historiography—articulated to an increasingly sympathetic public how fascist regimes jeopardized the United States' national security and way of life.