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> [“Fascism is “true" insofar as it helps fulfill the destiny of a chosen race or people or blood, locked with other peoples in a Darwinian struggle,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/fascism-is-true-insofar-as-it-helps-fulfill-the-destiny-of-a-chosen/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

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## More by Robert O. Paxton

> [Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/birdscapes-moves-rather-like-those-swallows-dipping-and-swerving-to/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/i-think-the-career-of-president-mitterrand-which-was-rather/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [“Looking for fears, indeed, may be a more fruitful research strategy than a literal-minded quest for thinkers who “created” fascism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/looking-for-fears-indeed-may-be-a-more-fruitful-research-strategy/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [“It became harder for them to indulge their initial freedom to mobilize a wide range of heterogeneous complaints, and to voice the scattered resentments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/it-became-harder-for-them-to-indulge-their-initial-freedom-to/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [“An interlocking set of new enemies was emerging: globalization, foreigners, multiculturalism, environmental regulation, high taxes, and the incompetent politicians who could not cope with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/an-interlocking-set-of-new-enemies-was-emerging-globalization/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/well-he-worked-for-a-fairly-harmless-agency-he-worked-for-the-agency/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/a-form-of-political-behavior-marked-by-obsessive-preoccupation-with/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [“Fascism is “true" insofar as it helps fulfill the destiny of a chosen race or people or blood, locked with other peoples in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/fascism-is-true-insofar-as-it-helps-fulfill-the-destiny-of-a-chosen/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/well-i-think-they-re-going-to-learn-that-an-awful-lot-of-french/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/fascism-is-a-system-of-political-authority-and-social-order-intended/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [Marshal Petain's Vichy regime looked like that new start. A couple of years later, it wasn't so evident that he was going to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/marshal-petain-s-vichy-regime-looked-like-that-new-start-a-couple-of/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [“The most interesting aspects of the story lie between the two extremes of coercion and popularity. It might be instructive to consider fascist regimes’…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/the-most-interesting-aspects-of-the-story-lie-between-the-two/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/i-think-the-french-have-come-to-grips-with-their-past-and-that-was/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had been closed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/well-almost-everything-is-open-the-political-documents-the/)

[Robert O. Paxton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-o-paxton/)

> [There were the events of 1968 when young people began to ask their parents, what did you do in the war? And since the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-o-paxton/there-were-the-events-of-1968-when-young-people-began-to-ask-their/)

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