ABSTRACT
Fascism came about without design, with no prerequisites that permit a firm characterization of its doctrinal uniformities. The national state has been so much the defining characteristic of the fascist system that it has rarely developed international or transnational bases. One of the better defined and better known is the Marxist theory of fascism, which essentially states that fascism is a bourgeois movement of the upper middle classes. Sophisticated liberal analysts explain German fascism as a result of the fact that the German bourgeoisie had mismanaged the economy and allowed it to reach a point of incredible inflation. The political-sociological explanation of fascism best explains its different varieties and strains. The theory states that the efforts of fascism and its leadership are no longer centered upon the economy, but the state. Nineteenth-century doctrines that carried over into the present century explain the social basis of fascism in terms of the classes that they saw themselves in historic conflict with.
