Jim Bennet examines what happened to the fascist movement after
WWII. European fascism was like a large river, flowing and
carrying along millions of willing and enthusiastic adherents
across the European continent. The question now is, where did
this river disappear to in 1945? These people and their
underlying sentiments were the culmination of generations of
political evolution. It defies reason to believe that they
simply changed their minds, all of them. Above all, fascists
everywhere enshrined the role of the state as the focus of
national life and the source of meaning and value. This
separates fascism from other movements of political violence and
racial caste conflict (like the Klan, for example) and unites it
with the superficially liberal but state-exhalting European
nationalist movements of the 19th century of which fascist
movements are ultimately mutated descendents. This value also
unites fascism with the purposive and directive state of
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