![]() ![]() ![]() The shared ideological space cannot be tidily blamed on co-optation, although many fascists embrace co-optation and “entryism.” Instead, fascism emerges as a unique response to the same material conditions. However, fascism also embraces aspects of social and ecological movements usually attributed to the left. If we consider the left’s embrace of equality as its defining characteristic, fascism remains decisively on the right. ![]() More recently, warnings of a “creeping fascism” have returned. Some fifty years later, scholar Philippe Burrin would refer to the “fascist drift” that attracted the left to the causes of the right. In the years before the Nazi invasion, as fascism pulled activists from the ranks of the left, Popular Front leader Léon Blum spoke of a “contagion” gripping France. ![]()
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