“The issue of fascism since 1945 is further clouded by polemical name calling. The far Right in Europe after 1945 is loudly and regularly accused of reviving fascism; its leaders deny the charges no less adamantly. The postwar movements and… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Birdscapes moves rather like those swallows, dipping and swerving to pick up all sorts of items of interest. Mynott tells plenty of good birding tales, but these serve mainly to set off trains of reflection. . . . Reading Birdscapes is like going birding with a learned, witty, and somewhat irreverent companion who isn't satisfied just to check things off.… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share
I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical. — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“Looking for fears, indeed, may be a more fruitful research strategy than a literal-minded quest for thinkers who “created” fascism.” — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“It became harder for them to indulge their initial freedom to mobilize a wide range of heterogeneous complaints, and to voice the scattered resentments… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“An interlocking set of new enemies was emerging: globalization, foreigners, multiculturalism, environmental regulation, high taxes, and the incompetent politicians who could not cope with… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Well, he worked for a fairly harmless agency. He worked for the agency that looked after French prisoners of war. Though he was capable of some horrendous blunders when he was president. He once said that the Vichy legislation against Jews affected only foreign Jews, which was, of course, absolutely wrong. So he obviously wasn't too well-informed about what is… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share
A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share
“Fascism is “true" insofar as it helps fulfill the destiny of a chosen race or people or blood, locked with other peoples in a… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
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… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
Fascism is a system of political authority and social order intended to reinforce the unity, energy, and purity of communities in which liberal democracy… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
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… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
“The most interesting aspects of the story lie between the two extremes of coercion and popularity. It might be instructive to consider fascist regimes’… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
