In preparing to write a lit review due on the 8th, I've decided to make a spreadsheet of a selection of books notable either for their influence on fascism studies or their novelty. In another measure of procrastinating on actually writing the literature review itself, here is a short list of notable authors and a quick summary of what they thought about fascism. Any scholar not appearing on this list was omitted with the utmost contempt.
- Antonio Gramsci Fascism is bourgeois democracy
- Grigory Zinoviev Fascism is social democray
- Karl Polanyi Fascism is markets in decay
- Leon Trotsky Fascism is capitalism in decay
- Wilhelm Reich Fascism is sexual repression
- Theodor Adorno Fascism is daddy issues
- Klaus Theweleit Fascism is men making love with war
- Kathleen Blee Fascism is in need of women
- Max Horkheimer Fascism is subjective reasoning
- Kevin Passmore Fascism is contradictions
- Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke Fascism is esoteric cults
- Emilio Gentile Fascism is political religion
- Hannah Arendt Fascism is following orders
- Erich Fromm Fascism is wanting to follow orders
- Ernst Nolte Fascism is Hegelian
- George Mosse Fascism is Nietzschean
- Richard Wolin Fascism is postmodern
- Eugen Weber Fascism is socialism and nationalism but not national socialism
- David Roberts Fascism is national syndicalism but not syndicalism or nationalism
- Renzo de Felice Fascism is Italian
- Zeev Sternhell Fascism is French
- Federico Finchelstein Fascism is global
- Stanley Payne Fascism is selecting from the following list
- Stephen Shenfield Fascism is a lot of things actually
- Roger Griffin Fascism is palingenetic ultranationalism and I have declared it the consensus
- David Renton Fascism is radically inegalitarian and Roger Griffin is not the consensus
- Roger Eatwell Fascism is still around
- A. James Gregor Fascism is not still around and please stop talking about my eugenics think tank
- Claudio Fogu Fascism is imagining the past
- Ruth Ben Ghiat Fascism is imagining the future
- Robert O. Paxton Fascism is taking power in stages
- Tamir Bar-On Fascism is taking power in decades
- Alexander Reid Ross Fascism is *waves hands wildly*