The Nature of Fascism - Paperback

by Roger Griffin (Author)

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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What do we mean by 'fascist'?'The most broad-ranging internally consistent and suggestive general book on the subject that has so far been published.' -Richard Thurlow Department of History, University of Sheffield