• Publisher: *cf.
• 272 pages
• Author: Tomaž Mastnak
• Original title: Črna internacionala: vojna, veliki biznis in vpeljava neoliberalizma, 1. zvezek

This book explores the implementation of neoliberalism in Europe following World War II. The post-war period is the key chapter in the history of neoliberalism but has received almost no attention in Slovenian or international academic literature. Based on American, German, French, English, Italian, and Russian sources from the 1930s and the 1940s and the critical reading of our contemporary interpretative literature, this book thus closes a huge gap in our knowledge of modern political history in general, and particularly the history of neoliberalism, and thus contributes to a better understanding of this phenomenon that so decisively shapes the world in which we live. At the same time, the book continues and completes Mastnak’s previous work, the critically acclaimed and popular Liberalism, fascism, neoliberalism, which Založba /*cf. published in 2016.

About the author

Tomaž Mastnak

Tomaž Mastnak (1953) is a sociologist, philosopher, and historian of European political thought. Prior to his retirement, he was a senior researcher at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and had been a visiting scholar at a number of European and American universities. Until he was recently “cancelled” due to his critical views, he had for decades been a regular newspaper columnist, commenting on Slovenian and international politics from the perspective of political theory. In the 1980s, he was an important player in the democratic movement in Slovenia.