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Robert O. Paxton: The Anatomy of Fascism (2004, Knopf)

An analysis of fascism seeks to clarify its ideological foundations, the leaders and historical situations …

In internal exile in Naples, the eminent liberal Italian philosopher-historian Benedetto Croce observed disdainfully that Mussolini had added a fourth type of misgovernment—“onagrocracy,” government by braying asses—to Aristotle’s famous three: tyranny, oligarchy, and democracy.

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