International Fascism: Theories, Causes and the New Consensus

This reader focuses on the definition and ideology of generic fascism,
bringing together articles, essays, and political writings by several
key figures to lay bare the structural affinity that relates fascism not
only to Nazism but to the many failed fascist movements that surfaced
in inter-war Europe and elsewhere. In both his introduction and his
editorial commentary Griffin locates the driving force behind all
fascist movements in a distinctive utopian myth, that of the regenerated
national community, destined to rise up from the ashes of a decadent
society.