JASON STANLEY
Q. WHAT DO YOU CONSIDER TO BE THE MEANING OF THE TERM FASCIST?
A. The great historian of fascism Roger Griffin has noted, about the “bewilderingly wide range of ideal types of their essential definitional traits [that have] accumulated over time”, that “there is no objective way of resolving the differences between them.” I agree with Griffin; it would be foolish not to, given the literature. I think we need a term for a certain social and political structure we can see replicated in otherwise very different
