The Anatomy of Fascism

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 7

Where this source is used

• Paxton reports that conservative elites often preferred authoritarian rule to fascism even when some later collaborated with fascist movements.

  • supports · chapter 8, p. 207, paragraph beginning ‘Considering fascism simply’

• Paxton examines a core set of movements and regimes generally accepted as fascist, with Italy and Germany predominant rather than exclusive in his sample.

  • context · chapter 1, p. 14, paragraph beginning ‘I propose to set aside’

• The Griffin and Paxton approaches require more than repression, nationalism, or dictatorial rule, so those features alone do not establish a fascist classification.

  • context · chapter 8, p. 218, concluding definition

• Paxton defines fascism as political behavior in which a mass-based nationalist party collaborates with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties, and pursues internal cleansing and external expansion without legal or ethical restraint.

  • supports · chapter 8, p. 218, concluding definition

• Mussolini's doctrinal self-description establishes what the regime claimed, not whether every practice followed it or whether other movements belong in the same scholarly category.

  • qualifies · chapter 1, p. 10, paragraph beginning ‘This book takes the position’

• Paxton reports both a view of fascism as a subspecies of totalitarianism and postwar theories that exclude Italian Fascism from that category.

  • supports · chapter 8, p. 210, paragraphs beginning ‘A multitude of observers’

• Paxton includes Italian Fascism in a core sample of movements and regimes generally accepted as fascist.

  • supports · chapter 1, p. 14, paragraph beginning ‘I propose to set aside’