Historical Entropy and the Zeitgeist of the Age: A Comparative Analysis of 20th Century Fascism and 21st Century Far-Right

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2025-12-9

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Aslan, Asya Gül

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This study investigates the political, economic, and social conditions that facilitated the rise of fascism in the interwar period and systematically compares them with the contemporary dynamics shaping populist far-right movements. It argues that despite profound contextual differences, striking parallels—ranging from socioeconomic precarity and intensified social fragmentation to crises of political legitimacy— continue to structure both historical moments. These resonances suggest not a direct recurrence of fascism but the re-emergence of deeper structural logics that recur across historically transformed settings. the study employs entropy as a metaphorical and analytic lens to conceptualize the growing uncertainty, institutional destabilization, and ideological diffusion characterizing today’s global political environment. This approach demonstrates that structural conditions resembling those that enabled fascism to persist, yet they operate within a far more complex, digitally mediated, and globally interdependent system. The study concludes that contemporary far-right movements should be understood as historically inflected phenomena shaped by both enduring structural pressures and the high-entropy dynamics of the twenty-first century.

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fascism, far-right, populism, historical entropy

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/117386

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis