ABSTRACT
The history of the twentieth century has demonstrated that it is just such movements, fascist and non-fascist alike, that mature into regimes that have been, more often than not, guilty of those crimes against humanity that darken our time. Such movements, and the regimes they create, are so charged with a sense of righteous indignation and a conviction in their own moral impeccability, they are capable of the most unspeakable offenses against their actual or imagined opponents. In revolutionary circumstances, such elements have greater opportunities for rising to positions of authority. As contradictions mounted between the system and its legitimating Marxist ideology, more and more found themselves potentially criminal "deviationists" and "bourgeois sectarians". Fascist thought, as it found expression in Mussolini's Italy, is of immediate political and international relevance.
