Author: Irvine, William D.

Source: Historical Reflections, Volume 34, Number 2, Summer 2008 , pp. 134-146(13)

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

Abstract:

Scholars of Third Republic France have long assumed that the political spectrum was divided into a readily identifiable Right and Left, adhering to mutually exclusive positions. But this comfortable political taxonomy could, at times, to violence to political reality. The Right could at some periods in the history of the Third Republic be aggressively nationalistic; at other times it could be positively irenic. The Left was often pacifist, but not always and there were moments when it, or some fraction of it, could be quite bellicose. Neither anti-Semitism nor racism in general were the exclusive province of the Right. On critical issues, the Left could be more refractory to women's rights than was the Right. French fascism claimed to be neither right nor left and at least some French fascist movements could list as many former members of the Left among its leaders as former members of the Right.

Keywords: ANTI-SEMITISM; FASCISM; FEMINISM; LEFT; NATIONALISM; RACISM; RIGHT; PACIFISM

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/hrrh2008.340208

Publication date: 2008-06-01

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