Nature of Fascism

<p><em>The Nature of Fascism</em> 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. <br>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.</p>