Nature of Fascism

The <strong>Nature of Fascism</strong> draws on the history of ideas as well as on politicalsocial and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and ... » 

The Nature of Fascism draws on the history of ideas as well as on politicalsocial and psychological theory to produce a synthesis of ideas and approachesthat will be invaluable for students. Roger Griffin locates the driving forceof fascism in a distinctive form of utopian myth that of the regeneratednational community destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent society.He lays bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not only to Nazismbut to the many failed fascist movements that surfaced in interwar Europe andelsewhere and traces the unabated proliferation of virulent but thus farsuccessfully marginalized fascist activism since 1945. «