ABSTRACT
Ledeen: We have spoken about Italian fascism and a bit on German nazism. Let us now talk about fascism in general. Inlnterpretations of Fascism you said that the social base of fascism—that is, the middle classes—must be kept in mind to understand the phenomenon. You say that fascism must be analyzed in the context of the more-or-less industrialized countries of Western Europe between the two world wars. How do you respond to those who, like Weber, 36 for example, speak of a primitive fascism in Rumania, where there were no middle classes; or to those who, like Gregor, 37 speak of fascism outside the European context, of Arab fascism like Nasser’s movement or Qadaffi’s. Is fascism necessarily the creation of the middle classes of industrialized countries?
