“In Fascism, as in Communism, the idea of the future was based on a critique of bourgeois modernity… It rose from a variety of currents and from authors of very different origins, all of whom demonized the bourgeoisie. The doctrine was cast as post-Marxist, not as pre-liberal.”

Source: The Passing of an Illusion, The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century (1999), p. 175

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