Fascism drew on syndicalist currents and positioned itself against both bolshevism and plutocracy.
Evidence
Georges Valois was a French fascist thinker, who early in this century formed the “Cercle Proudhon ”, of which Sorel was a member. After the World War he organised a movement aimed at “national revolution”, based on ex servicemen and inspired by Mussolini; it was equally hostile to “bolshevism” and “plutocracy”. In the ‘thirties he espoused a form of “convergence” theory, seeing both the USA and the USSR as evolving towards a highly technological, syndical form of society. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 2178
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the genealogy of fascist ideology that Islamophobia critics later trace; Valois and Cercle Proudhon prefigure the ex-servicemen revolutionary-nationalist movements.
Related
- French fascism drew on syndicalist and anti-bolshevik movements rooted in ex-servicemen (similarity 0.93)
- Fascism’s essence was disputed among revolutionaries in 1926 (similarity 0.81)