[lbo-talk] three faces of fascism

[Chris Doss]

Speaking of the F word and our wonderful Nazi interloper, does anyone know 
of any sociological data on who actually joins such groups in the 
contemporary West? It would seem to be a pretty whacked-out kind of person 
who's going to identify with the most reviled political regime in history. I 
don't mean Fascism, I mean Nazism (which are different but related 
phenomenon in my opinion; I think Arendt was right on this). I can imagine a 
rational person in Italy, say, positively appraising Mussolini as a figure 
who made the trains run on time, but Hitler has no plusses at all. (I read 
somewhere that the Italian Fascists only executed 13 people for political 
purposes; Hitler whacked 400 just on the Night of the Long Knives).

I mean, are these typically uneducated types? What class to they generally 
come from? I'm sure Chip has reams of material on this.


>
>One of the best books -- if not the best -- I've seen on the rise of 
>fascism
>in Europe is:
>
>Fascism and Big Business
>by Daniel Guerin, Francis Merrill, Mason Merrill
>Pathfinder Press (1994)
>
>Orig. publ. in 1936 and reads like it was written yesterday. Guerin was a
>French Trot who later became an anarchist and gay rights activist.
>
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