Time to post again the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.

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84. I put footnotes in quotes to draw attention to

the fact I believe that if he went to the trouble to compile his list there should be some supporting documentation of the methodology used.

For example, how did he determine which regimes were fascist and why. How is "Obsession with National Security" measured. Sounds very subjective.

There are scholars who have spent a great deal of their careers studying Fascism. They are PhDs who have published numerous books/articles and some teach on the subject. Among the authors I've read are Zeev Sternhell, Robert Paxton, Stanley Payne, Roger Griffin, Roger Eatwell, and others. What's interesting to me is not only how they approach the issue but how they differ in their respective conclusions. Sternhell, for example, doesn't consider Nazi Germany as being fascist (others believe they were, but not as much as the Italian version), and traces the origin to the French Revolution. Some consider it to be an strictly an interwar phenomenon.

Britt's list is a conversation piece without any depth.