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Spirited-Office-5483 t1_je510ot wrote

I guess it doesn't hurt to see if anyone has recommendations for Marxist reads. Also academic historiography on fascism, specially fascism in South America, I intend to study fascism in Brasil. Not sure if it will happen but who knows, new doc new pills.

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eatglitterpoopglittr t1_je5ycwm wrote

The Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano. It’s a history told from a populist perspective, starting with the first Spanish explorers and carrying all the way through the military dictatorships in Argentina, Brazil and elsewhere in the 70s.

There’s also an audiobook version read by Isabel Allende.

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Stalins_Moustachio t1_je57wiw wrote

I highly recommend Hannah Arendt's The Origins lf Totalitarianism and Federicho Finchelstein's From Facism to Populism.

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BarakObamoose t1_jeeby6n wrote

For Fascism, some of the cornerstones in the historiography of Comparative Fascism are:

Fascism - Comparison and Definition by Stanley Payne

A History of Fascism 1915-1945 by Stanley Payne

The Nature of Fascism by Roger Griffin

The Anatomy of Fascism by Robert Paxton

The Birth of Fascist Ideology by Zeev Sternhell

Neither Right nor Left: Fascist Ideology in France by Zeev Sternhell

António Costa Pinto is my favorite author writing in the field still. He has some great books on the Portuguese Fascist movement, Estado Novo, and Corporatism as a system of economic organization (both with and separate from Fascism political organization) in the 20th century. I haven't read it yet, but he has a newer book on Latin American fascism that may cover Brazil. Some of my favorites by him (including edited volumes) are The Blue Shirts: Portuguese Fascists and the New State, Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe, and Corporatism and Fascism: The Corporatist Wave in Europe.

Edit: Costa Pinto has two on Latin America, Latin American Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism: The Corporatist Wave, and Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Europe and Latin America: Crossing Borders.

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Spirited-Office-5483 t1_jeeeqli wrote

What a treasure trove! Thanks! Since you study this subject you should checkout Brazilian integralismo and it's leader, Plínio Salgado. He had connections in Portugal, his books were printed there and he went into exile there after the Getúlio Vargas coup and creation of the authoritarian Estado Novo.

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nola_throwaway53826 t1_je8bd4a wrote

If you're looking for Marxist reads, you can go to https://www.marxists.org/index-mobiles.htm

They have a LOT of free ebooks on the topic. They have works by Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, and many others. They have histories about the Russian Revolution like John Reed's ten days that shook the world, all kinds of books that have analyses of socialism, communism, and history. All the books are public domain, and this older. But its everything you could want about the earliest writings and analyses of Marxism. And you can read everything there for free.

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