The long second chapter of Maurice Bardèche’s Qu’est-ce que le fascisme (What is fascism?) is presented here in several installments. In this first section of Chapter II, Bardèche explains that German National-Socialism was different from Italian Fascism in: its origin,
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The broad outline of Bardèche’s view of Mussolini is intuitively obvious. Clearly, Mussolini accomplished good things for Italy, and then, at some point, became unrealistically ambitious. How much more fortunate Fascist Italy would have been if the temptation of an
The term fascism is problematic. Before the rise of Hitler, and even before the rise Mussolini, there was a concept of national-socialism. National-Socialism was a general term. Anne Morrow Lindbergh (wife of the aviator) used national-socialism as a general term as