This article sets out to examine what fascism actually meant to its earliest British adherents focusing on Britain’s first self-proclaimed fascist group, the British Fascisti (BF). Drawing on material from the BF’s newspapers, the popular press, and archival sources, it argues that its members conceived of British fascism as an imperial solution to a crisis imagined in imperial terms. They envisioned British fascism in practice as the metropolitan extension of repressive imperial violence—that is, the ability to take whatever steps deemed necessary to safeguard the law, order, and the status quo, whether on the streets of Britain or those of the Punjab. In this sense, the article maintains, the BF formed part of a broader British political tradition, one that saw the ‘ethos’ of Empire as a means of averting Britain’s decline. It begins by introducing the BF and their ideology, moving to a discussion of how the Jewish-Bolshevik plot against the British Empire imagined by BF members reflected the colonial experiences of their leading personnel. It then interrogates the BF’s proposed antidote to this anti-imperial conspiracy. By emulating the qualities and behaviour of Britain’s imperial heroes and living an ‘imperial’ way of life, they hoped to restore Britain to greatness. It concludes with a call for further research into the overlapping histories of British fascism and the British Empire.

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皇家思维：1923–35年的英国法西斯蒂和帝国政治

本文着手探讨法西斯主义对最早关注英国第一个自称法西斯组织英国法西斯蒂（BF）的英国信徒的实际含义。它利用BF报纸，大众媒体和档案资料的资料，认为其成员认为英国法西斯主义是帝国主义想象中的危机的帝国解决方案。他们将英国法西斯主义在实践中设想为压制性帝国暴力的大都市扩张，也就是说，无论是在英国街头还是旁遮普街头，他们都有能力采取被认为必要的措施来维护法律，秩序和现状。文章认为，从这个意义上讲，BF是英国更广泛的政治传统的一部分，该传统将帝国的“精神”视为避免英国衰落的一种手段。首先介绍BF及其思想，然后讨论BF成员想象的犹太人-布尔什维克对大英帝国的阴谋如何反映其领导人员的殖民经历。然后，它询问了BF提出的针对这种反帝共谋的解毒剂。他们通过效仿英国帝国英雄的素质和举止，并过着“帝国主义”的生活方式，希望使英国复兴。最后，呼吁进一步研究大不列颠法西斯主义和大英帝国的重叠历史。他们通过效仿英国帝国英雄的素质和举止，并过着“帝国主义”的生活方式，希望使英国复兴。最后，呼吁进一步研究大不列颠法西斯主义和大英帝国的重叠历史。他们通过效仿英国帝国英雄的素质和举止，并过着“帝国主义”的生活方式，希望使英国复兴。最后，呼吁进一步研究大不列颠法西斯主义和大英帝国的重叠历史。