Whether their ideological commitment was to proletarian communism, or the Nordic race, or the restoration of Italy to its proper place in the community of nations, they all chose the hierarchically structured, charismatically led single party state to pursue their ends—a state first fixed in the political doctrine by Fascism.

p. 313 - Marxism, Fascism & Totalitarianism: Chapters in the Intellectual History of Radicalism, 2008