Mention of the Reading in Part I - This is the first person account reading of Part II of Varieties of Fascism by Professor Eugen Weber. Reading 1B is a short excerpt from a report by R Palme Dutt on the 1928 Program of the Communist International, who, increasingly alarmed by its competition with fascism, formed its own definition of it. It is important to note that Professor Eugen Weber does make mention of this definition but (in the Narrator's interpretation of Chapter 4) appears not to find it to be all that accurate concerning its status as reactionary and property-class defensive, however, it was a historical view of the time common among its ideological enemies.
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In 1964, the world approached the twentieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War. Eugen Weber, a Romanian born, French-educated, British Veteran, and now American professor, sat down to take in the impact of socialism, fascism, and national socialism on the 20th-century world. Having served with the British during the Second World War, Eugen Weber was no stranger to the violent upheaval these ideologies had, and indeed are having.
In the Narrator's opinion, the compilation of this work is invaluable in a current atmosphere of domestic ideological cleavings. Writing nineteen years after the Second World War, a war which Professor Weber fought in, this work has topical adjacency to the real physical manifestations of such phenomena. Additionally, written in the early sixties, the work does not suffer the estrangement and misdefinition of the terms it seeks to educate on.
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