akes a distinction between fascism, such as was seen in Italy, and National Socialism, the German manifestation. He believes that people tend to confuse the two. Yet, he also finds that there are a number of elements which the two seem to share, and some indeed which they seem to share with Communism, another social and political movement with which they were in competition. Among these elements are the following:
1) maintenance of capitalism (clearly not shared by Communism);
2) intensification of capitalist dictatorship (Communist dictatorship being of a different order);
3) limitation and repression of independent working-class movements and the building up of a system of organized class cooperation;
4) revolt against parliamentary democracy;
5) extending the state monopolist organization of industry and finance;
6) closer concentration of each imperialist bloc into a single economic-political unit; and
7) increasing imperialist antagonisms leading to war (Weber 70-71).
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