The political theory of fascism

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Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt
By Umberto Eco, originally in New York Review of Books, 22 June 1995, as excerpted in Utne Reader, November-December 1995. It is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism.
The only difference between Communism and Fascism
By Haines Brown, contribution to a dialog in the alt.politics.communism newsgroup, 18 July 2002. Argues that the affinity of communism and fascism is an artifact of bourgeois ideology, of empiricism.
Fascism: What it is and how to fight it (excerpts)
By Leon Trotksy, The Militant, [10 May 2003]. Excerpts from Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It, a pamphlet by Leon Trotsky published by Pathfinder Press, 1996. The fascist movement in Italy, Germany and the United States. As a bourgeois dictatorship.
Fascism and what is coming
Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA/People Against Racist Terror (ARA/PART) with responses from other ARA and anti-fascist activists, 9 June 2003. There are, roughly speaking, three views of fascism out there: 1) the way fascism presents itself; 2) the way competing rulers, and competing strategies and ideologies within imperialism present it; and 3) the way working class oriented revolutionaries, whether anarchist or socialist, have traditionally seen it. I think all those views are wrong.
Facism Anyone?
By Laurence W. Britt, Free Inquiry Magazine, [15 July 2003], followed by a critique by Chip Berlet. Identifies traits common to fascist regimes and demonstrates their being the antithesis of humanism.
Roots of fascism...
By Bernard Switalski, 18 April 2004. Rather than develop an argument, Swatalski assembles brief quotations in support of his view that that fascism is but a sect of socialism and therefore working class ideology therefore shares the attributes of its fascist offspring.