A. James Gregor - The Faces of Janus (2000)

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By the end of the 1960's, Soviet theoreticians were prepared to argue that the 'Chinese leadership' had transformed itself into an 'anti-Marxist, anti-socialist, chauvinistic and anti-Soviet... bourgeois-nationalistic' movement of reaction... In their account, Soviet thinkers had recourse to the same list of descriptive traits that Western academics had employed for some considerable time to identify fascist political and social systems.

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Fascism's most direct ideological inspiration came from the collateral influence of Italy's most radical 'subversives' — the Marxists of revolutionary syndicalism.

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The first Fascists were almost all Marxists—serious theorists who had long been identified with Italy's intelligentsia of the Left.

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By the time of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Marxist theoreticians had begun to evaluate fascism in a totally unanticipated fashion... More than that, as Marxist theorists were compelled to reinterpret fascism in the light of empirical evidence and political circumstances, the fundamental affinities shared by Marxist and fascist regimes became apparent.

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Fascism... was the socialism of 'proletarian nations.'

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