Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
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The allergy to “fascism” among some intellectuals posing as “sane” analysts of the contemporary situation
This is a good example, relying on an historian who apparently thinks that Mussolini was a fascist, but no one else really was. Here’s a different and more perceptive historian, Robert Paxton…
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