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One of the few achievements the communist left in Britain can still plausibly claim is its anti-fascism in the 1930s and beyond. This has recently been most dogmatically reasserted in a series of publications by David Renton, who calls for a distinction to be made between "anti-fascists" and "non-fascists." The former are characterized by their "correct" understanding of fascism and reliance on organized, active resistance, often in the streets; whereas the latter contributed very little to fascism's defeat.' Such a loaded definition of anti-fascism ensures that only the Communist Party and their acolytes fit the bill. But within the historiography even more "neutral"-and seemingly encompassing-definitions have tended, in practice, to look largely to left-wing organizations. This article will question these perspectives and argue for the significance of a "liberal" anti-fascism, which brought together many Liberal, Conservative and Labour politicians and intellectuals in cross-party pressure groups. What characterized the anti-fascism of these men and women was not resistance to the actions of the BUF, which most regarded as thuggish but insignificant, but resistance to the ideological challenge to English parliamentary democracy represented by continental "totalitarian" movements. The article will begin by considering the compromised nature of the British Communist Party's anti-fascist record and why "liberal" historians have, on the whole, tended to underestimate the extent of liberal anti-fascism. It will then suggest that a truly less exclusionary and partisan approach to anti-fascism should readily include the likes of the liberal Sir Ernest Barker and many in his political and social circle. It will also argue that, even accepting Renton's own, restrictive definition, Barker would still qualify as an anti-fascist, rather than a non-fascist, for he combined a coherent analysis of single-party, totalitarian states with a commitment to organized action through bodies such as the New Estates Community Committee and the Association for Education in Citizenship to remove the pre-conditions of antidemocratic beliefs.
在英国,共产主义左翼仍有理由宣称的为数不多的成就之一,是其在上世纪30年代及以后的反法西斯运动。最近,大卫·伦顿(David Renton)在一系列出版物中最教条地重申了这一点,他呼吁区分“反法西斯主义者”和“非法西斯主义者”。前者的特点是他们对法西斯主义的“正确”理解,并依靠有组织的、积极的抵抗,通常是在街头;而后者对法西斯主义的失败贡献甚微。”这种对反法西斯主义的含混定义确保了只有共产党和他们的党徒符合要求。但在史学中,甚至更“中立”的定义——似乎是包涵性的——在实践中倾向于主要关注左翼组织。本文将质疑这些观点,并论证“自由主义”反法西斯主义的重要性,它将许多自由党、保守党和工党的政治家和知识分子聚集在跨党派压力团体中。这些男男女女反法西斯主义的特点并不是抵制英国民主联盟的行动,因为他们被大多数人认为是残暴但微不足道的,而是抵制以欧洲大陆“极权主义”运动为代表的对英国议会民主的意识形态挑战。本文将首先考虑英国共产党反法西斯记录的妥协性质,以及为什么“自由主义”历史学家总体上倾向于低估自由主义反法西斯的程度。然后,它将建议,一种真正不那么排他性和党派化的反法西斯主义方法,应该欣然接纳像自由派欧内斯特·巴克爵士(Sir Ernest Barker)这样的人,以及他的政治和社会圈子中的许多人。本书还将论证,即使接受伦顿自己的限制性定义,巴克仍然有资格被称为反法西斯主义者,而不是非法西斯主义者,因为他将对一党专制国家的连贯分析与通过新产业社区委员会和公民教育协会等机构采取有组织行动的承诺结合起来,以消除反民主信仰的先决条件。
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{"title":"Tamara L. Hunt. Defining John Bull: Political Caricature and National Identity in Late Georgian England . Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate. 2003. Pp. xiii, 452. $99.95. ISBN 1-84014-268-5.","authors":"M. Baer","doi":"10.2307/4054620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054620","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"30 1","pages":"717-718"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054620","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68624330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simon J. Potter. News and the British World: The Emergence of an Imperial Press System, 1876–1922. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 264. $80.00. ISBN 0-19-926512-7.","authors":"David A. Campion","doi":"10.2307/4054635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/4054635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":80407,"journal":{"name":"Albion","volume":"36 1","pages":"739-740"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2307/4054635","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68625294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}