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American Fascism: Then and Now

TALKING POLITICS

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Mussolini's Antisemitism

How much conspiratorial thinking on the right started to beget conspiratorial worries on the left is again an open and important question. But there was certainly a great deal of talk about basically divvying up the world so that Hitler could have Europe and America would take Americas. Also, I just want to briefly come back to the point about Mussolini as well, which I think is really important because you say antisemitism as a platform is actually only central to Hitler's version of fascism. It comes in late. There's a sense in which Mussolini was kind of forced into it by the alliance with Hitler. But we also need to remember that Mussolini was busily massacring Ethiop

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