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Fascism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
by Kevin Passmore
from Oxford University Press, USA

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Don't Know Much About History
  There are those who are fans of the long book (C.S. Lewis was one). I'm a fan of the short book. These books are short. They're also small: they fit in your pocket. But they're also illustrated, and since the print is a bit smaller than the usual 10 or 12 point font, you really get a rather larger book. I'm quite excited about the whole series, because I like nothing better than delving into a small book (and am a fan of the essay for that reason). But, of course, as all the books are by different authors... more info

• Good intro to a nebulous topic
  The term "fascism" gets tossed around a lot. Passmore helps distinguish between groups with fascist elements (a sizable group) and "dyed-in-the-wool" fascists (few and far between, especially nowadays). This book would serve as a good primer to help enlighten discussion of comparative politics. Also, anyone engaging in political discourse would be well-served to use this text as a guidepost before hurling "fascist" accusations at commentators from the conservative side of the political spectrum.

• This is a small yet powerful book
  This is the first book on Fascism that I have read so far. I was curious about Fascism because it was the prevailing political and economic system in both Germany and Italy at the beginning of World War 2 and that war is one of my favorite reading subjects.
  I found the book readable, detailed and, very clear. The book carries a lot of information for being only an introduction to Fascism. You will find out that Fascism is a broad term that, nonetheless, did not fully describe any system defined as such... more info

• A Clear Overview of a Complex Subject
  When one considers the ideology of fascism many notions and images spring to mind: totalitarianism, nationalism, ultranationalism, racism, oppression, censorship, violence, Nazism, Para militarism, right wing conservatism, radicalism, eugenics and the Holocaust. As Kevin Passmore suggests, Fascism is all these things and not these things, as it has a mercurial nature. In fact, "...fascism, as Ortega y Gasset says, is always `A' and not `A'." (p.11)
  Passmore devotes most of this text to the inter-war... more info

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