The Anatomy of Fascism by O Paxton, it's a little bit academic so ofc it takes a standard lib approach to things (like mentioning Stalinism at all ffs or comparing communism and fascism like a braindead lib), its still a useful text since it actually bothers to look at the history of fascism's development as well as the culture that fostered it in say Italy or Germany (so some materialist analysis, though not dialectic), rather than just trying to crunch universal definitions off observations or going off the fascist's words themselves in isolation. It doesn't cover much outside of Germany or Italy, and for what little is there on Lat Am it just sucks, but for Europe its something.
Idk what I'll read next. Thinking about Gramsci's notebooks possibly.
I'm a bit late to the party but I just found myself scrolling this thread and wanted to recommend Wilhelm Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascim if you're interested in a less liberal investigation of what fascism is.
The Anatomy of Fascism by O Paxton, it's a little bit academic so ofc it takes a standard lib approach to things (like mentioning Stalinism at all ffs or comparing communism and fascism like a braindead lib), its still a useful text since it actually bothers to look at the history of fascism's development as well as the culture that fostered it in say Italy or Germany (so some materialist analysis, though not dialectic), rather than just trying to crunch universal definitions off observations or going off the fascist's words themselves in isolation. It doesn't cover much outside of Germany or Italy, and for what little is there on Lat Am it just sucks, but for Europe its something.
Idk what I'll read next. Thinking about Gramsci's notebooks possibly.
I'm a bit late to the party but I just found myself scrolling this thread and wanted to recommend Wilhelm Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascim if you're interested in a less liberal investigation of what fascism is.
Appreciate it, I was also suggested to look at lemmygrad's c/capitalismindecay for resources in general.