# The Nature of Fascism

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- Authors: [Roger Griffin](https://www.bookquiver.com/roger-griffin)
- Publisher: Routledge
- ISBN: 978-04-1509-661-4
- Pages: 264
- Published: 1993-05-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The Nature of Fascism 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. 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.