Note Taking V

Winock, Michel. “Le fascisme, c’est la guerre!” L’Histoire 325 (1999): 50-7.

Summary :

This article is the most precise and unbiased definition of what fascism really is.

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- Fascism, and not neo-fascism, needs to have the six following characteristics to be called “true fascism”. The movement needs to be ultranationalist, wants to create a new Man, it needs a charismatic leader, it needs to promote or be the sole political party, it needs a state ideology and it finally promotes a war ideology to mobilize the nation.