A comprehensive study of fascism as it evolved in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. First published in French in 1936, this book shows how fascism, far from being an aberration of mass psychology, arose from the specific conditions of a social system in crisis. At first covertly, then increasingly openly, layers of big business financed and promoted the fascist movements in Italy and Germany.

Guerin contrasts the fascists' initially radical anticapitalist demagogy with their moves to shore up the capitalist profit system once they form the government.

Description by the publisher.

422 pages.

By Daniel Guerin

Pathfinder Press