The political theory of fascism
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- Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking
at a Blackshirt
- By Umberto Eco, originally in New York Review of
Books, 22 June 1995, as excerpted in Utne
Reader, November-December 1995. It is possible to
outline a list of features that are typical of what I
would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism.
- The only difference between Communism and
Fascism
- By Haines Brown, contribution to a dialog in the
alt.politics.communism newsgroup, 18 July 2002. Argues
that the affinity of communism and fascism is an artifact
of bourgeois ideology, of empiricism.
- Fascism: What it is and how to fight it
(excerpts)
- By Leon Trotksy, The Militant, [10 May
2003]. Excerpts from Fascism: What It Is and How to
Fight It, a pamphlet by Leon Trotsky published by
Pathfinder Press, 1996. The fascist movement in Italy,
Germany and the United States. As a bourgeois
dictatorship.
- Fascism and what is coming
- Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against
Racist Terror (ARA/PART) with responses from other ARA and
anti-fascist activists, 9 June 2003. There are, roughly
speaking, three views of fascism out there: 1) the way
fascism presents itself; 2) the way competing rulers, and
competing strategies and ideologies within imperialism
present it; and 3) the way working class oriented
revolutionaries, whether anarchist or socialist, have
traditionally seen it. I think all those views are
wrong.
- Facism Anyone?
- By Laurence W. Britt, Free Inquiry
Magazine, [15 July 2003], followed by a critique by
Chip Berlet. Identifies traits common to fascist regimes
and demonstrates their being the antithesis of
humanism.
- Roots of fascism...
- By Bernard Switalski, 18 April 2004. Rather than develop
an argument, Swatalski assembles brief quotations in
support of his view that that fascism is but a sect of
socialism and therefore working class ideology therefore
shares the attributes of its fascist offspring.