ABSTRACT
The European project and the will to preserve the peace at all costs were important factors in the ‘fascist drift’ of Jouvenel and Fabre-Luce. We shall see in this chapter that elements linked to developments in French politics and the socio-economic ideas of the two intellectuals played at least as big a role. During the 1920s, Fabre-Luce adhered to free-market liberalism. Both intellectuals considered economic capitalism as intrinsically linked to democracy and political freedom, although Fabre-Luce was more insistent on this point than Jouvenel. Fabre-Luce criticised collectivist socialism, Italian Fascist corporatism and American Taylorism as incompatible with liberty. 1
