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…

— Robert O. Paxton

I think the career of President Mitterrand, which was rather sensational when it was revealed, is probably very typical.

— Robert O. Paxton

“Looking for fears, indeed, may be a more fruitful research strategy than a literal-minded quest for thinkers who “created” fascism.”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Robert O. Paxton

I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s.…

— Robert O. Paxton

Well, almost everything is open - the political documents, the (unintelligible) of cabinet meetings. What has been opened now and what had…

— 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…

— Robert O. Paxton

“The issue of fascism since 1945 is further clouded by polemical name calling. The far Right in Europe after 1945 is loudly…

— Robert O. Paxton