Adolf Hitler

fascism

is a man who, in many thundering discourses, expressed his respect, if not admiration, for Stalinist Communism and its leader.

Passing of an Illusion: The Idea of Communism in the Twentieth Century, Chicago, Illinois; London, England, University of Chicago Press, 1999, p. 191

is post-Marxist, not as pre-liberal. As with Communism, the idea of the future was based on a critique of bourgeois modernity.

In Fascism, as in Communism, the idea of the future was based on a critique of bourgeois modernity… It rose from a variety of currents and from authors of very different origins, all of whom demonized the bourgeoisie. The doctrine was cast as post-Marxist, not as pre-liberal.

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