The Anatomy of Fascism (Paperback)

from KidSisyphus

If a liberal is a conservative who has been mugged, a fascist is a conservative whose wife has been given the vote.

from ebethe

Very well researched, constructed and written book. Helped me to understand how wrongly the term "fascist" is often used. Paxton leads the reader through a review of "5 stages" to get t Facisim and examines several countries wrt those stages. Nicely put together, and one of those books that I wou...

from TheAmpersand

A solid introduction to what is probably the most bewildering of political movements. Instead of striving to find an exact definition of fascism, what Paxton refers to as a "fascist minimum," "The Anatomy of Fascism" goes wide-angle, considering fascism as a phenomenon that occurred all over the ...

from kant1066

In "Il Gattopardo," Guiseppe di Lampedusa said of the Sicilian nobility that, "if we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." Robert Paxton asserts that the same can be said for the scholarship of fascism in "The Anatomy of Fascism," his insightful analysis of the rise, entre...

from Kade

Never was there a more fitting analysis and explanation of the tenets of Fascism and its ideological underpinnings. Unlike Marx, who wrote with the strength of academic credentials, the leaders of Fascism were almost never social scientists. So the most effective analysis of Fascism comes from lo...