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New theories of social and political psychology rejected the notion of human behaviour being governed by rational choice and instead claimed that emotion was more influential in political issues than reason
Bergson's claim of the existence of an élan vital centred upon free choice and rejected the processes of materialism and determinism this challenged Marxism
Historian Robert Soucy stated Hitler envisioned the ideal German society as a Volksgemeinschaft a racially unified and hierarchically organized body.
Mussolini stated fascism's position on the political spectrum was not a serious issue for fascists.
The fascist left included Michele Bianchi Giuseppe Bottai Angelo Oliviero Olivetti Sergio Panunzio and Edmondo Rossoni who advanced national syndicalism.
José Antonio Primo de Rivera said the Right maintains an economic structure while the Left attempts to subvert it.
Ancient Sparta has been considered an inspiration for fascist and quasi-fascist movements such as Nazism and quasi-fascist Metaxism
These features cannot be organized into a system many of them contradict each other and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism
It is enough that one of the features be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it
John Lukacs argues there is no such thing as generic fascism
Richard Griffiths wrote in 2000 that fascism is
Racism was a key feature of German fascism for which the Holocaust was a high priority.
Historians Umberto Eco Kevin Passmore and Moyra Grant stress racism as a characteristic component of German fascism.
Scholarship focuses on fascism's social conservatism and authoritarian means of opposing egalitarianism.
The term has been applied to Marxist–Leninist regimes in Cuba under Fidel Castro and Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh
They welcomed fascism and supported its violent suppression of opponents on the left.
Herbert Matthews of The New York Times asked in 1946 Should we now place Stalinist Russia in the same category as Hitlerite Germany Should we say that she is Fascist
George Orwell noted in 1944 the term 'fascism' had been used to denigrate diverse positions in internal politics.
J Edgar Hoover wrote extensively of red fascism
Umberto Eco lists fourteen features that are typical of what he would like to call Ur-Fascism or Eternal Fascism
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