Fascismi e Antropocene. La palingenesi ultranazionalista come reazione alla crisi ecologica

This article proposes a reading of the current growing political consensus towards far-right parties in the West, in connection with the advent of the Anthropocene. In doing so, it seeks to highlight how the recent recognition of humanity as an Earth system disrupting agent, has evolved alongside a widespread awareness of the threats to social systems posed by environmental change. Drawing on the conceptual foundations of fascism, as articulated by scholars such as Paxton, Griffin, and Payne, it argues that contemporary far-right movements display similar traits to historical fascisms, focusing on the palingenetic narrative: the attempt to return to a golden age, which is currently found in the widespread reaction to the ecological crisis. The article so tries to explore the implications of this reaction as a potential catalyst for a new form of fascism, emerging from the anxieties that permeate the end of an epoch, with the collapse of previous expectations of perpetual growth. Hence, faced with the impossibility of returning to the Holocene, the search for palingenesis by the new fascism, which fights against the reality of the Anthropocene, could reveal itself to be limitless and without conclusion, opening the possibility of an "infinite fascism".