A. James Gregor (1929–2019) American political scientist
Source: The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century, (2000), p. 6
“We are left with a budget of paradoxes. Given the seeming logic of the proposed classification of right-wing polities—with nationalism, hierarchical political structures, and charismatic leadership as defining properties— both fascism and Marxism-Leninism would seem to be political products of right-wing extremism. Should that be the case, the revolutions undertaken by Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin, and Mao Zedong were all right-wing endeavors.”
Source: The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century, (2000), p. 5
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