FASCISM. THE CAREER OF A CONCEPT

What does it mean to label someone a fascist? Today, it is equated with denouncing him or her as a Nazi. But as intellectual histori an Paul E. Gottfried writes in this provocative yet even-handed study, the terms meaning has evolved over the years. Gottfried exam ines the semantic twists and turns the term has endured since the 1930s and traces the words polemical function within the context of present ideological struggles. Like conservatism, liberalism, and other words whose meanings have changed with time, fascism has been used a...[Read more]