A. James Gregor (1929–2019) American political scientist
Source: The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century, (2000), p. 6
“By the time of its disappearance at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, it was no longer plausible to argue that the Soviet Union offered a clear alternative to the ‘right-wing extremism’ of fascism. In fact, it was no longer clear what ‘right-wing’ or ‘left-wing’ might be taken to mean in terms of the major revolutions of the twentieth century.”
Source: The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century, (2000), p. 6
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