The Nature of Fascism

2013/10/11 by Roger Griffin · 1 voice · 8 citations
Social Sciences · #Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

paper · doi:10.4324/9781315003627

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Abstract

The Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on political, social and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approaches that will be invaluable for students. Roger Griffin locates the driving force of fascism in a distinctive form of utopian myth, that of the regenerated national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society. He lays bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not only to Nazism, but to the many failed fascist movements that surfaced in inter-war Europe and elsewhere, and traces the unabated proliferation of virulent (but thus far successfully marginalized) fascist activism since 1945.

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Discussions

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